Max Stirner

"Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. Without our assistance, time will not bring …"

"I am owner of my might, and I am so when I now myself as unique. In the unique one the owner himself returns into his creative nothing, of which he is born. Every higher essence above me, be it God, b…"

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

"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 mak…"

"Whoso is full of sacred love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man."

"The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime."

"The will is not fundamentally right, as the practical ones would like very much to assure us; one may not pass over the desire for knowledge in order to stand immediately in the will, but knowledge pe…"

"It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish. Each sort of corresponding pride and every wind of covetousness, eagerness for office, mechanical and servile officiousness, hypo…"