Adler Quotes
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
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.
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
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.
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.
One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.