"Both state and church have as their object……" — Moses Mendelssohn
"Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God."
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Moses Mendelssohn
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21 Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn has 21 quotes on this site.
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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…
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You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at…
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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…
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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…
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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the…
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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the…
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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…
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More Actions Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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