Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
