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Max Stirner Quote: “No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”

51. “No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks “if I only have my dear life,” he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”

52. “When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks “if I only have my dear life,” he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.”

53. “If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “He who has might has – right; if you have not the former, neither have you the latter. Is this wisdom so hard to attain?”

54. “He who has might has – right; if you have not the former, neither have you the latter. Is this wisdom so hard to attain?”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.”

55. “Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to “its bloom”! The individuals have died “for the great cause of the nation,” and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and – has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism.”

56. “Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to “its bloom”! The individuals have died “for the great cause of the nation,” and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and – has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”

57. “I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.”

58. “It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper down to humility.”

59. “Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper down to humility.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Moral spontaneity” corresponds entirely with “religious and orthodox philosophy”, “constitutional monarchy”, “the Christian state”, “freedom with certain limits”, or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.”

60. “Moral spontaneity” corresponds entirely with “religious and orthodox philosophy”, “constitutional monarchy”, “the Christian state”, “freedom with certain limits”, or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!”

61. “Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.”

62. “Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”

63. “Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is – a purely egoistic cause.”

64. “Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is – a purely egoistic cause.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.”

65. “Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “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 yours.”

66. “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 yours.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth’s service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. “The truth” outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.”

67. “The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth’s service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. “The truth” outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.”

68. “Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Now do you suppose unselfishness is unreal and nowhere extant? On the contrary, nothing is more ordinary! One may even call it an article of fashion in the civilized world, which is considered so indispensable that, if it cost too much in solid material, people adorn themselves with its counterfeit tinsel and feign it.”

69. “Now do you suppose unselfishness is unreal and nowhere extant? On the contrary, nothing is more ordinary! One may even call it an article of fashion in the civilized world, which is considered so indispensable that, if it cost too much in solid material, people adorn themselves with its counterfeit tinsel and feign it.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns – they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.”

70. “Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns – they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “I love men too – not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.”

71. “I love men too – not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “The true human being doesn’t lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being.”

72. “The true human being doesn’t lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Entitled or unentitled – that does not concern me, if I am only powerful, I am of myself empowered, and need no other empowering and entitling.”

73. “Entitled or unentitled – that does not concern me, if I am only powerful, I am of myself empowered, and need no other empowering and entitling.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.”

74. “To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Language or “the word” tyrannizes hardest over us, because it brings up against us a whole army of fixed ideas.”

75. “Language or “the word” tyrannizes hardest over us, because it brings up against us a whole army of fixed ideas.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “Who is this person that you call “All”? – It is “society”! – But is it corporeal, then? – We are its body! – You? Why, you are not a body yourselves; – you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the “nation” of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a “spirit,” its body only semblance.”

76. “Who is this person that you call “All”? – It is “society”! – But is it corporeal, then? – We are its body! – You? Why, you are not a body yourselves; – you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the “nation” of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a “spirit,” its body only semblance.”

— Max Stirner

Max Stirner Quote: “In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his “bad desires” as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.”

77. “In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his “bad desires” as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.”

— Max Stirner

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