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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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