Crimes spring from fixed ideas. Max Stirner More Quotes by Max Stirner More Quotes From Max Stirner 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! Max Stirner hateperfectionphilosophy We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart. Max Stirner aspire The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. Max Stirner fightingmissingmen 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 judgingmenculture 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 proudskymay God sinks into dust before man. Max Stirner dustgodmen 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 enjoy-lifedoethinking 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 each-dayselfmay 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 long-lifedoelittles 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 lightsightmen 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? Max Stirner humanitydesirejustice Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. Max Stirner speciesidealsmen 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 swingsstupidself 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 ennuidoechildren Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property. Max Stirner propertyknow-howknows It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness. Max Stirner liberationi-canself What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag. Max Stirner flagswhat-mattersparty 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 libertariancauseslooks 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 sakereligiousmen 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 powerfuleducationmen
