Zitate von Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn
Geburtstag: 6. September 1729
Todesdatum: 4. Januar 1786
Moses Mendelssohn war ein deutscher Philosoph der Aufklärung. Er gilt als Wegbereiter der Haskala.
Zitate Moses Mendelssohn
„Solange ein Atheist nicht die Gesellschaft stört, darf er Atheist sein.“
zitiert in: TRIBÜNE, Heft 190, »Europäisches Licht« von Ursula Homann, S. 166; sowie auf literaturkritik. de
„The state gives orders and coerces, religion teaches and persuades. The state prescribes laws, religion commandments. The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and benificence. The one abandons the disobedient and expels him; the other receives him in its bosom and seeks to instruct, or at least to console him.“
Quelle: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 45
„Divine religion … does not prod men with an iron rod; it guides them with bands of love. It draws no avenging sword, dispenses no temporal goods, assumes no right to any earthly possessions, and claims no external power over the mind. Its weapons are reason and persuasion; its strength is the divine power of truth.“
Quelle: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 73
„The state gives orders and coerces, religion teaches and persuades. The state prescribes laws, religion commandments. The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and benificence.“
The one abandons the disobedient and expels him; the other receives him in its bosom and seeks to instruct, or at least to console him.
Quelle: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 45
