It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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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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Salvation 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.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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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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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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