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• God sinks into dust before man.

  Max Stirner

  God, Men, Dust

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

  Max Stirner

  Religious, Attitude, Humble

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

  Max Stirner

  Cheer, Air, Order

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• We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

  Max Stirner

  Aspire

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• 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

  People, Soul, Atheism

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.311, Cambridge University Press

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• Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

  Max Stirner

  People, Democracy, Liberty

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Enemy, Etc

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Doe

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.283, Cambridge University Press

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• Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

  Max Stirner

  Leadership, Purpose, Might

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Children, Doe, Ennui

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Max Stirner

  Attitude, Humble, People

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Weakness, Worthy

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.237, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Sacred, Infatuation

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

  Max Stirner

  People, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Political, Dominion

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

  Max Stirner

  Long, My Own

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.251, Rebel Press

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

  Max Stirner

  Party, What Matters, Flags

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.210, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Max Stirner

  Song, Heart, School

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?

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  Justice, Humanity, Desire

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.4, Rebel Press

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

  Max Stirner

  Names, People, Body

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.215, Cambridge University Press

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• Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Ideas, Space

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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

  Max Stirner

  Running, Personality, Together

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

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• Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Spirit, Belief

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.71, Rebel Press

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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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• 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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