In another situation, and in an active station in life,
ADAM WEISHAUPTGive them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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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 am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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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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