Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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