Felix Adler (professor) Quotes

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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Felix Adler

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

Felix Adler

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause....

Felix Adler

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

Felix Adler

Felix Adler

Felix Adler

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Born: August 13, 1851

Died: April 24, 1933 (aged 81)

Bio: Felix Adler was a German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement.

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