My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTSalvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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 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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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