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
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in… — 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
It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to… — 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
“Political liberty,” what are we to understand by that? Perhaps the individual’s independence of the State and its laws? No; on the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in… — 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
