Felix Adler Quotes
1851 – 1933
German-born American educator, founder of the Ethical Culture movement.
21 quotes
“The rudder of our ship has ceased to move obedient to the helm.”
“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
“Why should there be any more the old dividing line between man and his brother-man?”
“The moral ideal would embrace the whole of life. In its sight nothing is petty or indifferent.”
“Good deeds remain good, no matter whether we know how the world was made or not.”
“Only he who ceaselessly aims at moral completeness is, in the true sense, a human being.”
“The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life.”
“Let us found religion upon a basis of perfect intellectual honesty.”
“Religion, if it is to mean anything at all, must stand for the highest truth.”
“The criterion of all right relations whatsoever is that we are helped by them.”
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.”
