Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

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

Thinkable

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

Fall

Ignorance

Thinking

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

Chess

Games

Too Much

I am, therefore there is a God.

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

Debate

Matter

Philosopher

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.

Judaism

Revelations

Salvation

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Jew

Judaism

Law

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Doubt

Mean

Resolve

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.

Church

May

Mosques

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

Legislation

One Thing

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Eternity

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Father

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Giving

Glasses

Ignorance

Jew

Judaism

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Legislation

Long

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Mosques

Movement

Needs

One Thing

Order

Philosopher

Philosophical

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Profit

Resolve

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Salvation

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Sight

States

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Quotes by Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

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

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

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

I am, therefore there is a God.

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

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.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

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.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

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