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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOur secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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