Felix Adler Quotes & Sayings
27 most famous Felix Adler quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”
“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.”
“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.”
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”
“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.”
“In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.”
“No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.”
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
“The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.”
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