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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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 they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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