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 WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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 human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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