"The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything……" — Moses Mendelssohn
"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 from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can."
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Moses Mendelssohn
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21 Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn
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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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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men…
— Harry S. Truman
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques…
— Thomas Browne
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel…
— Augustus De Morgan
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on…
— Henry Sidgwick
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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
— Maxwell Maltz
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It…
— David Foster Wallace
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