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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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