We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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If 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.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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