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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/both-state-and-church-have-as-their-object-actions-as-well-as/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/socrates-didn-t-care-to-visit-the-theater-as-a-rule-except-when-the/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/for-a-game-it-is-too-serious-for-seriousness-too-much-of-a-game/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/the-principal-axiom-in-their-theory-was-everything-can-be-proved-and/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/the-state-has-physical-power-and-uses-it-when-necessary-the-power-of/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/revealed-religion-is-one-thing-revealed-legislation-another/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/a-god-is-thinkable-therefore-a-god-is-also-actually-present/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/both-state-and-church-have-as-their-object-actions-as-well-as/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/my-religion-recognizes-no-obligation-to-resolve-doubt-other-than/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [I am, therefore there is a God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/i-am-therefore-there-is-a-god/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/i-fear-that-in-the-end-the-famous-debate-among-materialists-idealists/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/the-analysis-of-concepts-is-for-the-understanding-nothing-more-than/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-mendelssohn/)

> [Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/time-is-a-part-of-eternity-and-of-the-same-piece-with-it/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/we-would-be-able-neither-to-remember-nor-to-reflect-nor-to-compare/)

[Moses Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/consciousness-of-myself-combined-with-complete-ignorance-of/)

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> [Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-mendelssohn/instead-it-appears-to-be-a-particular-mark-of-beauty-that-it-is/)

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