"The conception of worth, that each person is……" — Felix Adler
"The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered."
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Felix Adler
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30 Quotes by Felix Adler
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning,…
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of…
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the…
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you…
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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