Quotes by Max Stirner

Max Stirner

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Men

Race

Slave

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.

Education

Men

Powerful

Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.

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Humble

People

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Crime

Ideas

Spring

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Despotism

Despots

States

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Fetters

Sacred

Ties

Feuerbach … recognizes … “even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God’s sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only.” Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man’s sake, or for morality’s sake, for Man’s sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God’s sake?

Men

Religious

Sake

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

Hate

Perfection

Philosophy

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Granted

Liberty

Taken

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

Light

Men

Sight

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Quotes by Max Stirner

Max Stirner

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

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.

Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

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