We must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTGive them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTA Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTOur secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
ADAM WEISHAUPT