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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
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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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The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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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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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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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.
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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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Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
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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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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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The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
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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.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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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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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
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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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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.
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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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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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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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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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