Analysis Quote by Moses Mendelssohn

“The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight” quote by Moses Mendelssohn — Download Open image

“The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight”

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For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

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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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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

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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…

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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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I am, therefore there is a God.

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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…

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Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

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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…

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