"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church……" — Felix Adler
"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
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30 Quotes by Felix Adler
Felix Adler has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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