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Moses Mendelssohn

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


— Moses Mendelssohn


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I am, therefore there is a God.


— Moses Mendelssohn


#god #i #i am #therefore

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


#debate #dispute #end #famous #fear

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


#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.


— Moses Mendelssohn


#legislation #one thing #religion #revealed #thing

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


#compose #except #had #helped #himself

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


#came #company #educated #enjoy #fame

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


— Moses Mendelssohn


#concepts #glass #magnifying #more #nothing

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


— Moses Mendelssohn


#necessary #physical #power #religion #state

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 #dead #father #his #inclination






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The Berlin of the day—the day of Frederick the Great—was in a moral and intellectual ferment. The interest caused by these actions led Mendelssohn to publish his most important contribution to the problems connected with the position of Judaism in a Gentile world. His sons were: Joseph (founder of the Mendelssohn banking house and a friend and benefactor of Alexander von Humboldt) Abraham (who married Lea Salomon and was the father of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn); and Nathan (a mechanical engineer of considerable repute).

banking house. He also establiMoses Mendelssohnd himself as an important figure in the Berlin textile industry which was the foundation of his family's wealth.

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