Nature of man Quotes by Max Stirner

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

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

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

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

— Max Stirner

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

— Max Stirner

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

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

— Max Stirner

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

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

— Max Stirner

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

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

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