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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
-
-
Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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 WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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 WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPT