Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThere is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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 tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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And 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.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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