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
simplicity should
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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.
enjoyment
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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.
struggle school evil
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.
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.
spiritual cutting race
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good:;; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.
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
devoid exercises
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.