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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn another situation, and in an active station in life,
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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.
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