Religion Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn

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

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

— Moses Mendelssohn

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

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

— Moses Mendelssohn

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

— Moses Mendelssohn

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

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

— Moses Mendelssohn

I am, therefore there is a God.

— Moses Mendelssohn

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

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

— Moses Mendelssohn

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

— Moses Mendelssohn

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do…

— Moses Mendelssohn