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 More Quotes by Max Stirner More Quotes From Max Stirner The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him. Max Stirner individual liberty limits 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 heart song school 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 etc men enemy The people’s good fortune is my misfortune! Max Stirner good-fortune fortune people People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. Max Stirner body names people Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter. Max Stirner fetters sacred ties The people is dead! Good-day, Self! Max Stirner good-day self people 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 weakness worthy taken The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling. Max Stirner college men lying 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 space stupid ideas Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. Max Stirner grace law fiction 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 my-own long Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. Max Stirner despots despotism states 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 humble attitude people The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime". Max Stirner practice law war 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 ignorance men fall 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 atheism soul people Liberty of the people is not my liberty! Max Stirner democracy liberty people Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality. Max Stirner personality together running 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 political dominion men
