"The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on……" — Max Stirner
"The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies."
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Max Stirner
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48 Quotes by Max Stirner
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Liberty of the people is not my liberty!
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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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In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather…
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