Moses Mendelssohn Quotes
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism. Translated by Allan Arkush, Brandeis University Press, 1983, p. 45.
Despite his recognition of this point, he too became an advocate of murdering religious opponents.
Head of the Sikh Religion. He was the first Sikh Guru to utilize weapons,
Most religions do not elevate happiness to a very high objective. Buddhism does however. Interestingly, the “pursuit of happiness” is a fundamental objective of American Democracy.
Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.
