Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
More Quotes from Moses Mendelssohn:
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
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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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
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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.
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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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