"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight"

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Source : Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1997). “Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

Moses Mendelssohn

#Sight Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”
“You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.”
“Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.”
“The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.”

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“She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me.”
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”
“Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.”
“The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.”

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