"For what reason then do the realists show……" — 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 want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!"
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Max Stirner
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48 Quotes by Max Stirner
Max Stirner has 48 quotes on this site.
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Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to…
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The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence…
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Liberty of the people is not my liberty!
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A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of…
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We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and…
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We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to…
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No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of…
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In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather…
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My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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