The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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