The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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