Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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