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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Art is a kind of illness.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
Country
Germany
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