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• In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

  Felix Adler

  Believe, Order, World

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

  Felix Adler

  Painful Experiences, Rose, Thorns

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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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, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  Felix Adler

  Peaceful, Mind, Criticism

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  Felix Adler

  Roots, Fruit, Corruption

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  Felix Adler

  Simplicity, Should

  Felix Adler (1926). “The Fiftieth anniversary of the ethical movement, 1876-1926”

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• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

  Felix Adler

  Fire, Addresses, Ethical

  Felix Adler (1926). “The Fiftieth anniversary of the ethical movement, 1876-1926”

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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  Felix Adler

  Long, Community, Prejudice

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• What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

  Felix Adler

  States, Certain, Approved

  "An Ethical Philosopy of Life". Book by Felix Adler, 1918.

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• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  Felix Adler

  Relationship, Fashion, Inspirational Love

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

  Felix Adler

  God, Religious, Real

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  Felix Adler

  Teacher, Office, Thankless

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• People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

  Felix Adler

  Unique, People, Essentials

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• The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.

  Felix Adler

  Writing, Race, Sublime

  Felix Adler (1914). “The Standard”

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Enlightened, Theory

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

  Felix Adler

  Numbers, Community, Church

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• I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.
  We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.

  Felix Adler

  Inspiration, Believe, Men

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Blood, Years

  Freedom from Religion foundation profile, ffrf.org.

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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  Felix Adler

  Anniversary, Country, People

  Felix Adler (1926). “The Fiftieth anniversary of the ethical movement, 1876-1926”

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• If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

  Felix Adler

  Order, Law, Effort

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• It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Wings, Miracle

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

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• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  Felix Adler

  House, Done, Bread

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Dogma, Creeds

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• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  Felix Adler

  Ethical, Manifold, Ideals

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