An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
- Felix Adler Quote

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 Quote

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 the general good.
- Felix Adler Quote

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

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 Quote

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
- Felix Adler Quote

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

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 Quote

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
- Felix Adler Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
- Felix Adler Quote

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

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
- Felix Adler Quote

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
- Felix Adler Quote