Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
Moses Mendelssohn

God, Actually, Present

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

Nature, God, Between

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

God, Ignorance, Thinking

I am, therefore there is a God.
Moses Mendelssohn

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

Fear, Famous, End

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, Far, Mark

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, Sense, Understood

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Moses Mendelssohn

Religion, Another, Revealed

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

Care, Himself, Except

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

Men, Friendly, Him

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn

Nothing, Sight, Analysis

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

Everything, Others, Process

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

Love, Religion, Power

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

Person, Together, Remember

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, Father, Long

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, Explain, Schools

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 6, 1729

Died: January 4, 1786

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