And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe may turn the public mind which way we will.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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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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 another situation, and in an active station in life,
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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