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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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 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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