The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
