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

Felix Adler

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

Tags: family

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: anniversary, time, political

About Author
Felix Adler may refer to:

Felix Adler (professor) (1851–1933), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the American Ethical Culture movement
Felix Adler (screenwriter) (1884–1963), film writer, known for writing many Three Stooges scripts
Felix Adler (clown) (1895–1960), long-time head clown of Ringling Brothers Circus

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

Felix Adler

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

Tags: teacher, office, public, thankless

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: faith, religion

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: freedom, progress, diversity, man

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: knowledge, legal, law, information

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: learning, life, peaceful, literature

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

Felix Adler

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

Tags: faith

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

Felix Adler

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

Tags: religion

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting...

Felix Adler

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting...

Tags: legal, time, good, community

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to re...

Felix Adler

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to re...

Tags: autobiography, criticism, falsehood, lie, rabbi, truth

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine qua...

Felix Adler

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine qua...

Tags: personality, quality, self, spirituality

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Felix Adler

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Tags: care, ethics, humanism, morality, morals, positive

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.

Felix Adler

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.

Tags: life, hero, light