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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Moses Mendelssohn |
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Quotes By author - Starting with M - Moses Mendelssohn
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There are 21 quotes for the author Moses Mendelssohn
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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.
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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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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.
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Power, genius, virtue have their unextended immensity that likewise arouses a spine-tingling sentiment but has the advantage of not ending, through tedious uniformity, in satiation and even disgust, as generally happens in the case of the extended immensity.
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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.
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
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We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire.
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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.
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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.
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