Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time I am full of thoughts, a thought-world. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image