If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a… — 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
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
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
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. — Max Stirner Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality,… — Max Stirner Copy Share
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims'… — Max Stirner Copy Share
