97 Quotes by Adam Weishaupt


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    The Independent used to be a good newspaper, until it became a viewspaper. Why should anyone pay to read the views of some commentator in The Independent when he could just as easily freely read the blog of some person on the internet who may be much funnier, more controversial, more radical, more interesting, more intelligent – and a better writer? Newspaper commentators are simply bloggers who get paid: grandiose, self-deluded bloggers in other words.

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    Meritocracy seeks to find the violinist in everyone, and to create a human orchestra capable of playing the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres, an orchestra in which humanity has become divine and can hear the music normally available only to God.

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    The only acceptable religious message is the one that teaches the good news – the true gospel – that we can all become God. If we are all on the evolutionary path to divinity, if our “salvation” lies in our own hands alone, then we have no need at all for Messiahs, monarchs, the super rich or celebrities.

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    In many ways, Dante's Divine Comedy was a dazzling depiction of the journey of the soul through Hell and Purgatory and its subsequent ascent through the heavens to Paradise is an allegory of the trials and tribulations of a soul as it undergoes many reincarnations in the world before achieving gnosis and escaping.

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    When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

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    Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

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