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Top 15 Moses Mendelssohn Quotes (2025 Update)

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “Judaism was not a religion but a law.”

1. “Judaism was not a religion but a law.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “I am, therefore there is a God.”

2. “I am, therefore there is a God.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths.”

3. “My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.”

5. “A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.”

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

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.”

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

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.”

12. “Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.”

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

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.”

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

— Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Moses Mendelssohn

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