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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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