We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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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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.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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