Adam Weishaupt quotes - page 2

Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher and professor of law, best known as the founder of the secret society known as the Illuminati. His work and the society he created influenced discussions about freedom, enlightenment, and conspiracy. He became a symbol of secret knowledge and the pursuit of rational thought in the Age of Enlightenment. Here are 31 of his quotes:

As Wishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot & priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, & the principles of pure morality.... He proposed to initiate new members into his body by gradations proportioned to his fears of the thunderbolts of tyranny. This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the masonic order, & is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information, reason, & natural morality among men.

Adam Weishaupt

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Adam Weishaupt

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Adam Weishaupt

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

Adam Weishaupt

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.

Adam Weishaupt