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

— Felix Adler, Life and Destiny (1913)

About Felix Adler

1851 – 1933

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

“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.”

“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”