The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses MendelssohnConsciousness 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 MendelssohnJudaism 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 MendelssohnThe analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
Moses Mendelssohn