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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. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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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. ↗

— 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

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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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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. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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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. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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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. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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