There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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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 it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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 will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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