“Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life.”

— Felix Adler, Life and Destiny (1913)

About Felix Adler

1851 – 1933

German-born American educator, founder of the Ethical Culture movement.

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.”

“The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.”

“The rudder of our ship has ceased to move obedient to the helm.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”

“I think that the reason to live is to learn.”