Moses Mendelssohn Quotes
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For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
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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…
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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…
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
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I am, therefore there is a God.
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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…
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
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My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
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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…
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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…
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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),…
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Judaism was not a religion but a law.
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Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
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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 not…
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