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• 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.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Light, Sight

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.9, Rebel Press

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• 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

  Looks, Libertarian, Causes

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.

  Max Stirner

  Self, Each Day, May

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.

  Max Stirner

  Running, Father, Thinking

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.113, Rebel Press

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

  Max Stirner

  Fighting, Men, Missing

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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• If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

  Max Stirner

  Fall, Ignorance, Men

  "The False Principle of our Education". Book by Max Stirner, p. 23, 1842.

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• 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

  Children, Breeding, Made

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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

  Max Stirner

  Men, Species, Ideals

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Dover edition, p. 182, 2005.

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• In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?

  Max Stirner

  Sky, May, Proud

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• 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

  Selfish, School, Merit

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• He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

  Max Stirner

  Doe, Littles, Long Life

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.321, Courier Corporation

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• 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?

  Max Stirner

  Why Not, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• 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?

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Men, Sake

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 55, 1995.

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• 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

  Education, Powerful, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

  Max Stirner

  Men, Judging, Culture

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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