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Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

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

Analysis, Concepts, Glasses, Nothing, Sight, Understanding

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.

Enacts, Giving, Law, Needs, Persuades, Religion

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

Debate, Dualists, Linguist, Matter, Philosopher

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.

Church, Greater, Host, May, Mosques, Reader

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.

Indispensable, Judaism, Religion, Revelations, Salvation, Truths

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Eternity, Part, Piece, Pieces, Same

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

Beneficence, Necessary, Power, Religion, States, Use

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

Complete, Existence, Fall, Ignorance, Telling, Thinking

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

Among, Disputes, Merely, Philosophical, School

I am, therefore there is a God.

God

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

Chess, Game, Games, Serious, Seriousness, Too Much

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.

Folly, Process, Profit, Theory

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.

Art, Father, Long, Sculpture

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