Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

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• For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
• The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
• I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter…
• You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally…
• A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
• I am, therefore there is a God.
• We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular…
• The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
• My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
• Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my…
• Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term…
• 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 compose),…
• Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
• We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who…
• Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly…
• The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much…
• When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much…
• Judaism was not a religion but a law.
• Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
• Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not…

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