By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Illuminate the opposition.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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