My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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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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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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