Author: Felix Adler

Quotes

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

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

- Felix Adler

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

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

- Felix Adler

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

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

- Felix Adler

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

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

- Felix Adler

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

- 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.

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

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

- Felix Adler

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

- Felix Adler

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

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

- Felix Adler

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