Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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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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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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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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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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