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

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• Moses Mendelssohn:

  I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verba

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would n

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  I am, therefore there is a God.

• Moses Mendelssohn:

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

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfact

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as th

• Moses Mendelssohn:

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

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

• Moses Mendelssohn:

  Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of