24 Quotes by Adam Weishaupt
Adam Weishaupt was an 18th-century German philosopher and founder of the secret society known as the Illuminati. He was born in 1748 in Bavaria and became a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt. Weishaupt's teachings, which were heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophy, were centered around the idea of the individual's freedom from religious and political oppression. The Illuminati, which was founded in 1776, was intended as a way for like-minded individuals to connect and promote these ideals. However, the group was quickly suppressed by the Bavarian government, and Weishaupt was forced to flee the country. Today, the Illuminati is often referenced in conspiracy theories as a shadowy organization with immense power and influence over global events. (Bio)
Adam Weishaupt Quotes
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. (Meaning)
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.
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 the code of laws to all mankind.
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 a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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 win him over, or decry him.
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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 neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
Illuminate the opposition.
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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.
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. The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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 come into my head.
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 the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
― Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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