"He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons……" — Max Stirner
"He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook."
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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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For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and…
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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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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