For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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