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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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 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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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