"What I have in my power, that is……" — Max Stirner
"What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing."
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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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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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