Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn - Page 1

I am, therefore there is a God.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
God I Am Am
Therefore
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Judaism was not a religion but a law.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Jew
Judaism
Law
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Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Eternity
Pieces
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Thinkable
Therefore
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Religion
Legislation
One Thing
Revealed
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For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Chess
Games
Too Much
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Beneficence
States
Use
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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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Uses
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Glasses
Sight
Understanding
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Analysis
Concepts
Magnifying
Sight
Understanding
Glass
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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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Doubt
Mean
Resolve
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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 / Philosopher
Art
Father
Inclination
Long
Sculpture
Pursuing
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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 himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Care
Play
Theater
Thinking
Compose
Except
Helped
Performed
Plays
Rule
Visit
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Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Men
Educated
Fame
Friendly
Greece
Instruction
Order
Spread
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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 / Philosopher
Disputes
Philosophical
School
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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 / Philosopher
Disputes
Philosophical
I Am Know How
Derive
Explain
How Much
Inclined
Merely
Originally
Schools
Verbal
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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 / Philosopher
Religion
Boast
Eternal
Exclusive
Indispensable
Judaism
Revelations
Salvation
Term
Understood
Revealed
Sense
Truths
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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 matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Debate
Matter
Philosopher
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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 matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Famous
Debate
Philosopher
Among
Dispute
Idealists
In The End
Merely
Speculative
Verbal
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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 / Philosopher
Fall
Ignorance
Thinking
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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 / Philosopher
Consciousness
Existence
Ignorance
Proof
God Myself Thinking
Original
Combined
Complete
Sphere
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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 / Philosopher
Mark
Particular
Satisfaction
Tranquil
Considered
Appears
Demanding
Instead
Pleases
Possess
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Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.
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Church
May
Mosques
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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 / Philosopher
Folly
Principal
Process
Profit
Superiority
Theory
Axiom
Disproved
Proved
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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 man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Church
Former
Latter
Nature God Man
Convictions
Actions
Based
Insofar
Object
Relations
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The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
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Giving
Law
Needs
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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 who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.
Moses Mendelssohn / Philosopher
Combination
Compare
Concepts
Divided
Thinking
Together
Would Be
Among
Somewhere
Encountered
Exact
Indeed
Moment
Neither
Nor
Reflect
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We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. 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
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Art
Desire
Movement
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