Moses Mendelssohn Quotes

Moses Mendelssohn — German Philosopher born on September 06, 1729, died on January 04, 1786

Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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

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 Quotes

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