For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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