Moses
Moses
Mosesis a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew, he is the most important prophet in Judaism. He is also an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, Baha'ism as well as a number of other faiths...
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education teacher book
I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
witty book reading
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
witty book humorous
I have read your book and much like it.
games chess too-much
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
philosophical school disputes
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes
thinkable
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
I am, therefore there is a God.
art desire movement
We 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
mean doubt resolve
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
fall ignorance thinking
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence
revelations salvation judaism
Judaism 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.
thinking play care
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
legislation one-thing
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.