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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 is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Fairy Gift Freedom Philosophy Responsibility

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age. Our equipment consists of elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Age Of Majority Education Ego Enlightenment Government Max Stirner Self Systematic Education Systems Thought Youth

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Being God Max Stirner Spirit Spirituality

It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Freedom Government Max Stirner Religion Self Actualization State

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits,or,more expressively, not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently,do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others...He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Breaking Chains Ego Freedom Freedom Of Thought Liberation Max Stirner Mental Restriction Self

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

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Crime Government Hypocrisy Law Politics Unjust Violence

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. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Egoism Philosophy Psychology

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your true benefit. You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Benefit Ego Max Stirner Self Spooks

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Ego Human Worth Ideology Labour Life Max Stirner Self Work Worth

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with *your* essence are valuable to me.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Ego Essence Love Max Stirner People Value

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

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Anarchy Ego Egoism Individualism Liberty Social Justice

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

Max Stirner Commonness Knowledge School Selfish Thought

God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Ego Egoism God Max Stirner

Our athiests are pious people.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Communism Liberalism New Atheists Socialism

Before the sacred, people lost 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 declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

~ Max Stirner

Max Stirner Confidence Power Short

Before the 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

Max Stirner Confidence Power Short

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

Max Stirner Man Ghosts Belief
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