The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
I am, therefore there is a God. - Moses Mendelssohn
I am, therefore there is a God.
- Moses Mendelssohn
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 t… - Moses Mendelssohn
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 t…
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it. - Moses Mendelssohn
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
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 excommunicat… - Moses Mendelssohn
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 excommunicat…
The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical … - Moses Mendelssohn
The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical …
Judaism was not a religion but a law. - Moses Mendelssohn
Judaism was not a religion but a law.
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths - Moses Mendelssohn
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of… - Moses Mendelssohn
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of…
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that t… - Moses Mendelssohn
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that t…
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