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Category: Max Stirner

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.

Man, Ghosts, Belief

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.

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.

Confidence, Power, Short

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Nothing is more to me than myself.

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

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 ideais man’s calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his human worth is measured

ego, human-worth, ideology, labour, life, max-stirner, self, work, worth

Our athiests are pious people.

communism, liberalism, new-atheists, socialism

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

crime, government, hypocrisy, law, politics, unjust, violence

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.

breaking-chains, ego, freedom, freedom-of-thought, liberation, max-stirner, mental-restriction, self

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.

freedom, government, max-stirner, religion, self-actualization, state