Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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