His theory on Life: "Things just happen, what the hell."

with Epictetus a close second

There are things I can't understand or even begin to understand, and that's OK. Then there are things I can't control, and that's OK too.

The Analyst is my favorite book.

Because music really is at the center of a sane life.

He was a Stoic. Their basic message: There are things you have control over, and things you don't. Don't worry about the stuff you can't control.

I have tried to live my life this way; it saves a lot of grief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Adler_(professor)

While in Germany, he was strongly influenced by neo-Kantianism, especially the notions that one cannot prove or disprove the existence of a deity or immortality, and that morality can be established independently of theology.

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Adler introduced his concept of Judaism as a universal religion of morality for all of humankind. The sermon was his first and last at Temple Emanu-El.

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On May 15, 1876 he reiterated the need for a religion, without the trappings of ritual or creed, that united all of humankind in moral social action.[7] To do away with theology and to unite theists, atheists, agnostics and deists, all in the same religious cause, was a revolutionary idea at the time.

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Adler talked about "deed, not creed"; his belief was that good works were the basis of ethical culture.

Socrates, Lao Tzu, Marx, Hegel, Spinoza, Locke, Paine, Simone De Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Albert Camus.

But his dialectic is excellent, as is the idea that you can see man’s consciousness unfolding by looking at religion through the ages.

Also, Nicholas de Cusa for his concept that if you could learn the “real” name of one thing in creation, you could understand the mind of God.

Marx criticized his idealism but was still very much influenced by him.

When he is talking about the superiority of the German system he has a footnote that says "I'm interested to see the outcome of the experiment in the colonies" meaning the US.

Right now, it’s not going so well, but the experiment isn’t over.

George Carlin and Gallagher.

There is only one Being/Truth and we act upon what we perceive to be true independent of the actual Truth.

Advocated the concept of All is One.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/#OveParPoe

Great book about Parmenides - In the Dark Places of Wisdom, which also discusses the Underground Healing Caves of Apollo

For daily living, Marcus Aurelius.

For daily meditation, Albert Camus.

For daily coping, Groucho Marx.

..and Kant. Had to add him.