Moses Mendelssohn Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
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It's very interesting to see what the security cameras can do and how long of a range they have.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
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Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.
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I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
