The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. — Felix Adler Conviction Copy Share Image
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. — Felix Adler Education 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
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. — Felix Adler Faith 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
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
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
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
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
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
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers… — Felix Adler Desire Copy Share Image
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler Advantage Copy Share Image
“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't… — Felix Adler Autobiography Copy Share Image
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best… — Felix Adler Age Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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