The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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.
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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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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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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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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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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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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