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 WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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