Felix Adler Quotes - Page 3

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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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• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

  Felix Adler

  Sunday, Church, Maintaining

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• It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.

  Felix Adler

  Wise, Fashion, Air

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

  Felix Adler

  Encouragement, Struggle, Water

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• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  Felix Adler

  Together, Admitting, Topics

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