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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

  Felix Adler

  Enjoyment

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

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• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

  Felix Adler

  Freedom, Long, Church

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Sunset, Blood

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

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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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