“Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.”

These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.

None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry

And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

We may turn the public mind which way we will.

For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. …

The ingenuity displayed in Euclid’s presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

“Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?” is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman’s right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.