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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The family is the school of duties - founded on love

The family is the school of duties - founded on love

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but...

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but...

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...

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 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...

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other,...

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other,...

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of...

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of...

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...

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without...

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 family is the school of duties - founded on love.

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

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...

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...

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

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...

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.