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

— Felix Adler, Founding Address (1876)

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.”

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

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”