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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
-
-
And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
We must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
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.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
We may turn the public mind which way we will.
ADAM WEISHAUPT