The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. — Felix Adler Education Copy Share Image
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. — Felix Adler Conviction Copy Share Image
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. — Felix Adler Church Copy Share Image
Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or… — Felix Adler Church Copy Share Image
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on… — Felix Adler Church Copy Share Image
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. — Felix Adler Faith Copy Share Image
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were… — Felix Adler Acting Copy Share Image
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler Books Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Idealist Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Bears Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler Appraise Copy Share Image
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is… — Felix Adler Ethics Copy Share Image
When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered,… — Felix Adler Beautiful Copy Share Image
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be… — Felix Adler Character Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Antagonism Copy Share Image
I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love… — Felix Adler Attraction Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Death Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. — Felix Adler Character Copy Share Image
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed,… — Felix Adler Change Copy Share Image
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual… — Felix Adler Diversity Copy Share Image
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler Action Copy Share Image
“To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.” — felix adler Care Copy Share Image
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
