And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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