Adam Weishaupt Quotes

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• By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind…
• I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
• We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
• The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be…
• Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is…
• Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate…
• We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show,…
• I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its…
• If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to…
• For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers,…
• 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…
• A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
• G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
• In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never…
• My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
• 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.
• I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the…
• The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by…
• But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as…

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