Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

• 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

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Matter, Philosopher, Debate

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• ¡Lector! No importa a qué iglesia visible, sinagoga o mezquita pertenezcas. Mira a ver si no encuentras más religión verdadera entre la hueste de los excomulgados que entre la hueste mucho mayor que los excomulgó.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Church, Mosques, May

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.75, UPNE

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• I am, therefore there is a God.

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  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.56, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Use, States, Beneficence

  Moses Mendelssohn (2013). “Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism”, p.45, Brandeis University Press

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Law, Giving, Needs

  Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.22

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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

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Mean, Doubt, Resolve

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• Judaism was not a religion but a law.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Law, Judaism, Jew

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• Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Pieces, Eternity

  Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.179

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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

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Fall, Ignorance, Thinking

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• El judaísmo no se jacta de ninguna revelación exclusiva de verdades eternas indispensables para la salvación, de ninguna religión revelada en el sentido en que se suele entender ese término.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Revelations, Salvation, Judaism

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE

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• For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Games, Chess, Too Much

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• A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Pensable

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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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• The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Glasses, Sight, Understanding

  Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1997). “Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Process, Profit, Theory

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• Una cosa es la religión revelada y otra la legislación revelada.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Legislation, One Thing

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Men, Order, Friendly

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Art, Father, Long

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Play, Care

  Moses Mendelssohn, Patricia Noble (2007). “Phädon: Or, On the Immortality of the Soul”, p.53, Peter Lang

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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.

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Together, Would Be

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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

  Moisés Mendelssohn

  Philosophical, School, Disputes

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.9, Springer Science & Business Media

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