Mendelssohn on Religion

This is fully in the spirit of your religion, which imposes upon you the obligation to subdue doubt through faith. A Christian philosopher may wile the time bantering with natural philosophers, proposing to them knots of doubt which lead him like a chimera from one corner to the next, always receding before his grasp. But my religion recognizes no obligation to dispose of such doubts through any means other than reason; it commands no belief in eternal truths. I have therefore no need to seek convictions.

—Moses Mendelssohn, To Lessing’s Friends (1786) in: Gesammelte Schriften (Jubiläumsausgabe) vol. 3/2, p. 205 (S.H. transl.)