"There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary……" — Max Stirner
"There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds."
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Max Stirner
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48 Quotes by Max Stirner
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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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