My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses MendelssohnWe consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it
Moses MendelssohnThe analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
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 Mendelssohn