"I say: liberate yourself as far as you……" — Max Stirner
"I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down your's. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair. ...."
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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