Top 40 Adam Weishaupt Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.”

— Adam Weishaupt

2. “Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?”

— Adam Weishaupt

3. “I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”

— Adam Weishaupt

4. “We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.”

— Adam Weishaupt

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

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6. “The hankering of the mind is irresistible.”

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7. “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.”

— Adam Weishaupt

8. “Nothing is more important than who controls the signs. To change the world, it is necessary to change the signs that are used to condition people.”

— Adam Weishaupt

9. “G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.”

— Adam Weishaupt

10. “It’s up to us. No one is coming to help us. If we don’t make the effort, no one else will. It’s time for the twilight of the idols. It’s time for a new dawn, a new humanity, a new world order. It’s time for the dawn of the Gods.”

— Adam Weishaupt

11. “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.”

— Adam Weishaupt

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

— Adam Weishaupt

13. “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.”

— Adam Weishaupt

14. “Ancient Gnostic sects held that the god of the Old Testament was the Devil, and the Bible his evil message to corrupt humanity. Can anyone doubt that they were right? Read the Bible for yourself. Learn the horrific truth. The Abrahamic faiths are Satanic.”

— Adam Weishaupt

15. “A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”

— Adam Weishaupt

16. “It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.”

— Adam Weishaupt

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

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

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

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20. “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.”

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21. “Illuminate the opposition.”

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

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23. “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.”

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24. “And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.”

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25. “This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.”

— Adam Weishaupt

26. “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.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “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.”

— Adam Weishaupt

29. “The Lutheran formula for a good life: commit as many as sins as possible then absolve yourself of all accountability by saying, “But I believe!” No wonder Lutheranism became so popular.”

— Adam Weishaupt

30. “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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31. “The Devil’s greatest trick isn’t getting you to think he doesn’t exist. Quite the reverse. It’s getting you to think he’s God and that you must obey him without question. Devil worshippers aren’t a rare exception in our world – they’re the norm.”

— Adam Weishaupt

32. “But 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 Weishaupt

33. “The ancient Gnostics knew that the Abrahamic “God” was Satan. Isn’t it time you reached the same conclusion?”

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34. “What has been the greatest obstacle to human progress? – Abrahamism. How can humanity ascend to the heavens? – by bringing the reign of terror of the God of Abraham to an end. The Terror God has had his day. It’s time for humanity to move on.”

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35. “We are the outsiders, the heretics, the rebels, the revolutionaries, the blasphemers, the outcasts, the infidels. We are the Resistance. We are the Truth seekers. We are the Mathematikoi. We are the Hyperboreans. We are the Illuminati. We are contra mundum.”

— Adam Weishaupt

36. “It’s time to make your stand. It’s you against the world. It’s you contra mundum. This world is hell, but good, rational people of strong will can convert it into paradise.”

— Adam Weishaupt

37. “Reason, not faith. Good deeds, not faith. Knowledge, not faith. In these signs we shall triumph.”

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38. “Thou Shalt Not,” the controllers say. “Thou Shalt, Thou Shalt, Thou Shalt, Thou Shalt, Thou Shalt,” we say. Reject their Mind Control. Their sins are false. Sin for Salvation.”

— Adam Weishaupt

39. “God’s truth is not in a “holy” book, is not delivered by prophets, has no connection with churches, synagogues and mosques, with commandments and religious prohibitions, with customs, rules, regulations, restrictions on diet and clothing etc. God’s truth is within us and our task is to find the key that unlocks the direct knowledge of God. Everyone has the key, but many will never use it.”

— Adam Weishaupt

40. “The Revolution will be live. And where will you be? In the historic pictures being beamed around the world, or watching at home in your comfortable seat, just as you have watched everything else, including your whole life, passing you by? Change isn’t the responsibility of others. It’s yours.”

— Adam Weishaupt

41. “Wouldn’t you want future generations to be watching a movie about what you did at this critical juncture in human history? Every generation has the chance to produce heroes. There is no law preventing you from being one of them. Too many people think that heroism is something other people do. No, it’s your responsibility.”

— Adam Weishaupt

42. “Change yourselves. Change the world. The very act of trying will inspire you. No one is saying it’s easy – it isn’t – but nothing will change without effort and struggle.”

— Adam Weishaupt