By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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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 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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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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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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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