"When Socrates was about 30, and his father……" — Moses Mendelssohn
"When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination."
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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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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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