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Max Stirner Quotes

1806–1856 Germany

Germany
Non-fiction authors
Philosophers

Also known as: Stirner, Stirnerism

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You long for freedom? You fools! If you took might, freedom would come of itself.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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 / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

"Freedom" awakens your rage against everything that is not you; "egoism" calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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

The False Principle of our Education (1842)

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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

The Great Quotations (1960)

The republic is nothing whatever but – absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a 'majesty'.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime.”

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection [Empörung] leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on “institutions.”

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

The tiger that assails me is in the right, and I who strike him down am also in the right. I defend against him not my right, but myself.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

What is not supposed to be my concern!

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Max Stirner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.