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Felix Adler
German, Educator
Total Quotes : 26
Corrupt
Private
Public
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
- Felix Adler
Commercial
Been
Momentary
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
- Felix Adler
Will
Hostile
Seclusion
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
Concerning
Thousand Years
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
- Felix Adler
Intellect
Philosophic
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
Past
Comforting
Animating
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
- Felix Adler
Country
Capital
Almost
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
- Felix Adler
Rest
Been
Might
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
Some
Over
Obtain
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
Simple
Exercises
Our
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
- Felix Adler
Precious
Nevertheless
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
Love
School
Founded
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
- Felix Adler
Identified
Should
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
- Felix Adler
Measure
Sum
Our
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
- Felix Adler
Teacher
Public
Thankless
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
- Felix Adler
Church
Large
Diminishing
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
Purity
Maintain
Continue
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
- Felix Adler
Love
Include
Natures
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
- Felix Adler
Society
Altar
Itself
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
- Felix Adler
Intellect
Differentiation
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
- Felix Adler
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