Felix Adler
(1851-1933)

German-American Educator, Social Reformer
Founder of the Ethical Culture Movement

birthdate: August 13
birthplace:
Alzey, Germany

QUOTES

"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.”

“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”

“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 quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.”

Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.”

“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.”

“The family is the school of duties - founded on love”

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

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

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

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.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

 

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