Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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