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
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. — 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
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler Action 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
“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
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement,… — Felix Adler Differentiation Copy Share Image
But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little… — Felix Adler Business Copy Share Image
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the… — Felix Adler Life Copy Share Image
It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Duty Copy Share Image
May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are… — Felix Adler Human beings Copy Share Image
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some… — Felix Adler Affirmation Copy Share Image
It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds… — Felix Adler Creeds 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
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
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 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
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of… — Felix Adler Anniversary Copy Share Image
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler 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
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
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
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
