Moses Mendelssohn Quotes


A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present. Moses Mendelssohn God 97
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. Moses Mendelssohn Actions 94
I am, therefore there is a God. Moses Mendelssohn God 83
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. Moses Mendelssohn Beauty 80
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. Moses Mendelssohn Religion 61
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. Moses Mendelssohn Combined 53
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. Moses Mendelssohn Among 53
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. Moses Mendelssohn Analysis 52
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. Moses Mendelssohn Religion 51
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. Moses Mendelssohn Religion 43
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. Moses Mendelssohn Axiom 28
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. Moses Mendelssohn Art 25
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. Moses Mendelssohn Among 24

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