Felix Adler Quotes

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. - Felix Adler

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. - Felix Adler

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. 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. - Felix Adler

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. - Felix Adler

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture. - Felix Adler

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

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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