Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohnwas a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1729
CountryGermany
fall ignorance thinking
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
thinking together able
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.
thinking play care
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.
actions based both former german-philosopher insofar latter man nature object relations state
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.
appears beauty considered demanding far german-philosopher particular pleases possess
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.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
philosophical school disputes
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
thinkable
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
revelations salvation judaism
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.
legislation one-thing
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
church mosques may
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.
pieces eternity
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
law judaism jew
Judaism was not a religion but a law.
profit theory process
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.