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
being-yourself hero dark
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
sunset blood sky
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.
painful-experiences rose thorns
By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.
change years world
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
doing-you
Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.
ethical whole unified
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
sunday church maintaining
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
teacher office thankless
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
roots fruit virtue
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
house done bread
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
numbers community church
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
wise fashion air
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.
zest soul mind
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.
best bestow country good highest love loves seeks woman
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good