Felix Adler Quotes

A collection of quotes by Felix Adler.

Felix Adler was an influential German-American philosopher and religious leader. He was born on August 13, 1851, in Germany, and later immigrated to the United States. Adler founded the Ethical Culture movement, aiming to apply ethical principles to social problems and promote social justice. He established the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City in 1876, which became a prominent center for reform and progressive ideas. Adler also served as a professor of political and social ethics at Columbia University. His ideas and teachings on ethical living and humanistic values continue to inspire many people today.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comf

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great thinkers have thought and written on the deepest problems of life, shall we not hear and enjoy? The future calls upon us to prepare its way. Dare we fail to answer its solemn summons?

Life Action

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl. She faces the wreck of worlds

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl. She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

Life Death Religion

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that ea

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Nature Love

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Freedom

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the sc

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Learning

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when th

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Religion

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Knowledge

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged i

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Faith

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Anniversary

Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best w

Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Patriotism

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Heroes/heroism

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn'

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Family

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concer

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Faith

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankl

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Teacher