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.
Adam WeishauptBut 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 WeishauptOh 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.
Adam Weishaupt