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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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 am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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