“Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.”

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.

None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry

And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

We may turn the public mind which way we will.

For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.

But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.