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.

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.

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.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

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.

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.