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Moses Mendelssohn has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our…
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for…
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…
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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…
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Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not…
— Gene Lees
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls…
— Lauren Myracle
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As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated…
— Mohsin Hamid
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