Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
ADAM WEISHAUPTA Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
ADAM WEISHAUPT