Felix Adler quotes

" The family is the school of duties... founded on love. " # Family # Duty # Love

" 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. " # Heroes and Heroism # Truth # Life and Living

" Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. " # Patriotism # Love # Men and Women

" 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. " # Life and Living # Love # Death and Dying

" 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. " # Thoughts and Thinking # Morality # Academia

" 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. " # Faith # Religion # Politicians and Politics