“The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.”

— Felix Adler

Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path. We struggle, and grope, and hurt ourselves until we learn the use of things, and this is true of things spiritual as well as of material things. Pain is unavoidable, but it acquires a new and higher meaning when we perceive that it is the price humanity must pay for an invaluable good.

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German American professor of political and social ethics, r… 1851–1933

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