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But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself ar...

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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

The Ego and Its Own

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside n...

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

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Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

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Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfa...

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The Ego and Its Own

It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what...

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Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hung...

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The Ego and Its Own

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian fai...

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Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

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The Ego and Its Own

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because...

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No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistica...

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The False Principle of Our Education

God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has on...

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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...

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Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

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Max Stirner

Philosopher

Born: 1806-10-25

Died: 1856-06-26

Max Stirner (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher who was a major influence on the nineteenth century development of ideas of nihilism, existentialism and individualist anarchism.More