Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe? — Adam Weishaupt Believe Copy Share Image
Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion. — Adam Weishaupt Catholic Copy Share Image
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. — Adam Weishaupt Dwelling Copy Share Image
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. — Adam Weishaupt Fruit Copy Share Image
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. — Adam Weishaupt Association Copy Share Image
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of… — Adam Weishaupt Giving Copy Share Image
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the… — Adam Weishaupt Believe Copy Share Image
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in… — Adam Weishaupt Deism Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that… — Adam Weishaupt America Copy Share Image
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. — Adam Weishaupt History Copy Share Image
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. — Adam Weishaupt Concealed Copy Share Image
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. — Adam Weishaupt Fallen Copy Share Image
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. — Adam Weishaupt Details Copy Share Image
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. — Adam Weishaupt Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. — Adam Weishaupt Grace Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt Circumstances Copy Share Image
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing… — Adam Weishaupt Has beens Copy Share Image
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and… — Adam Weishaupt Abraham Copy Share Image
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt Community Copy Share Image
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we… — Adam Weishaupt Accord Copy Share Image
“It’s time to make your stand. It’s you against the world. It’s you contra mundum. This world is hell, but good, rational… — Adam Weishaupt Against-the-world Copy Share Image
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our… — Adam Weishaupt Capable Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Association Copy Share Image
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Behavior Copy Share Image
The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but… — Adam Weishaupt Accustomed Copy Share Image
Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands… — Adam Weishaupt Break Copy Share Image
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for… — Adam Weishaupt Conviction Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Admiration Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Accounts Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Accurate Copy Share Image
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn… — Adam Weishaupt Historical Copy Share Image
But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would… — Adam Weishaupt Always Copy Share Image
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of… — Adam Weishaupt Business Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Alas Copy Share Image
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order… — Adam Weishaupt Active Copy Share Image
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools. — Adam Weishaupt Common Copy Share Image
