The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.
Felix AdlerTo care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Felix AdlerIt may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.
Felix AdlerThe Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix AdlerThe 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.
Felix Adler