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.

Quote by Felix Adler

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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the...

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the...

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will...

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will...

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless...

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless...

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms...

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms...

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at...

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at...

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient...

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient...

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers...

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers...

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the...

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the...

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring...

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring...

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful...

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful...

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material...

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material...

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks...

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks...

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and...

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and...

The family is the school of duties - founded on love

The family is the school of duties - founded on love

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built,...

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built,...

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly...

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly...

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up...

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up...