Rational Means Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn

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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…
• You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to…
• 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…
• 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…
• Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in…
• 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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