No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish. — 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