Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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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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