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Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
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Felix Adler
Age: 81 †
Born: 1851
Born: August 13
Died: 1933
Died: April 24
Educator
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Madrid
Spain
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Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
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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.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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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.
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It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
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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.
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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.
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The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.
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To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
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There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.
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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.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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