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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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 may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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 then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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