Felix Adler
Felix Adler
Felix Adlerwas an American screenwriter whose career spanned over 30 years. He is known for his work with the Three Stooges, including their Men in Black, which received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Short Subject - Comedy"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth22 January 1884
CityAlzey, Germany
CountryGermany
men roots imagination
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.
simplicity should
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
men blood years
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. . . .
freedom long church
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
anniversary country people
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.
taken desire unrest
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
fire addresses ethical
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
long community prejudice
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
respect people tools
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
god real moving
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
spiritual real unique
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
real development care
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
karma thyself
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
encouragement struggle water
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.