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We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
Max Stirner
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Max Stirner
Age: 49 †
Born: 1806
Born: October 25
Died: 1856
Died: June 26
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Professor Of Philosophy
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Johann Kaspar Schmidt
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
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Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the true man, and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
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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.
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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.
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A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
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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.
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If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
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Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
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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.
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