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
morning light shining
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.
diversity people house
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.
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.
together admitting topics
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
dogma certain creeds
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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.
peaceful mind criticism
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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.
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.
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.
roots fruit virtue
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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.
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.