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Max Stirner was a German philosopher born on October 25, 1806, and died on June 26, 1856. His philosophical thoughts revolve around individualism and egoism, which had a profound impact on later existentialism and nihilism.

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“People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.”

People Persons States Body Spirit Names Ruling

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.”

Children Persons Has Beens Made Impressed Maxims Piety Breeding Godliness Propriety Practise Good Breeding

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.”

May Persons Self Dies Glorious Each Day Decline Sunlight Assured

Book:The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“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.”

Men Persons Interest Ideals Accounts Sacred Infatuation Floats Infatuated

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.”

Needs Persons Doe Authority

Book:The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“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.”

Men Persons Political Individual Masters Liberalism Dominion Personal Freedom

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

About the Author

Born: October 25, 1806
Died: June 26, 1856
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 91

Books & Sources

The Ego and Its OwnRelated source material

Stirner: The Ego and Its OwnRelated source material

The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against AuthorityRelated source material

The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and RealismRelated source material

The Ego and His OwnRelated source material

Der Einzige Und Sein EigentumRelated source material

L'Unique et sa proprleteRelated source material

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