Adam Weishaupt

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

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.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.