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Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

— Felix Adler Life and Destiny (1913)

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Here are two kinds of light, the light on the hither side of the darkness and the light beyond the darkness.

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The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.

Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection.

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Deep down in every human heart is the seed of a diviner life, which only needs the quickening influence of right conditions to germinate.

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The bitter, yet merciful, lesson which death teaches us is to distinguish the gold from the tinsel, the true values from the worthless chaff.

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