Max Stirner - The Ego & Its Own

Eventually every sentence of The Ego & Its Own by Max Stirner, unsorted. Curated by @friedegger. You can tweet to @RandomStirner for your own quote.

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Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

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Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

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Those who had hitherto been subjects attained the consciousness that they were proprietors.

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Man I am without that, and I am I likewise;

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I will assume that you accomplish all that is possible to man, that you bring to pass what no other succeeds in.

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rather, it retains for me the subordinate significance of a permission.

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Yet, at the same time, he would also feel that he had to meet with truth only him whom he authorized to hear the truth.

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But thinking, as a thing presupposed, is a fixed thought, a dogma;

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It is human to look at what is individual not as individual, but as a generality.

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it is the broadened family (“Father of the Country — Mother of the Country — children of the country”).

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Irrational love is neither “false” nor “ruinous”; its does its service as love.

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Besides, cheating, hypocrisy, lying, look worse than they are.

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Because the well-meaning liberals feel this plainly, they hasten to declare that, considering “the devotion of the people,” there is assuredly no danger to be feared.

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The more gifted and the less gifted are to be found everywhere.

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But that it is at the same time a right of others, or even of all others, does not move me to its upholding.

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The press is my property from the moment when nothing is more to me than myself;

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He who serves this spirit of the State is a good citizen, let him live to whatever honest branch of industry he will.

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As a “petition for right,” even as a serious demanding of the right of liberty of the press, it presupposes the State as the giver, and can hope only for a present, a permission, a chartering.

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for Christianity does not let their murmurings and exasperation rise.

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And yet, how utterly unessential is this difference! If one buffets single traditional truths (i.e. miracles, unlimited power of princes), then the Rationalists buffet them too, and only the old-style believers wail.

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The point for us is not what we are for the State (citizens), not our citizenship therefore, but what we are for each other, that each of us exists only through the other, who, caring for my wants, at the same time sees his own satisfied by me.