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. ↗

— Felix Adler

#few #hostile #learning #leave #life

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

#efforts #information #knowledge #law #legal

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

— Felix Adler

#family #founded #love #school

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

#differentiation #diversity #every #freedom #human

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

#be real #ceaseless #efforts #engaged #ethical

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

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

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

— Felix Adler

#faith #formulas #men #more #quarreled

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

— Felix Adler

#enriched #expansion #fashion #include #love

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

— Felix Adler

#bestow #country #good #her #highest

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

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring