Adam Weishaupt Quotes

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

It's important to be enlightened.

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

Education brightens a darkened world.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.