These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTThere is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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 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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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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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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 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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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