I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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