97 Quotes by Adam Weishaupt

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

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.

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.

Illuminate the opposition.

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.