My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths.
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.Moses Mendelssohn
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
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 my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
Moses Mendelssohn
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
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