“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. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it.” PhilosophyPsychologyEgoism Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.” PhilosophyCreative Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“What is the ordinary criminal but one who has committed the fatal mistake of endeavouring after what is the people's instead of seeking for what is his? He has sought despicable alien goods, has done what believers do who seek after what is God's. What does the priest who admonishes the criminal do? He sets before him the great wrong of having desecrated by his act what was hallowed by the state, its prop erty (in which, of course, must be included even the life of those who belong to the state); instead of this, he might rather hold up to him the fact that he has besmirched himself in not despising the alien thing, but thinking it worth stealing; he could, if he were not a cleric Talk with the so-called criminal as with an egoist, and he will be ashamed, not that he transgressed against your laws and goods, but that he considered your laws worth evading, your goods worth desiring; he will be ashamed that he did not - despise you and yours together, that he was too little an egoist” PhilosophyCrimeMoralityIndependenceIndividualismEgoism Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“Negroidity represents antiquity, the time of dependence on things (on cocks' eating, birds' flight, on sneezing, on thunder and lightning, on the rustling of sacred trees, and so forth) ; Mongoloidity the time of dependence on thoughts, the Christian time. Reserved for the future are the words, 'I am owner of the world of things, and I am owner of the world of mind'.” PhilosophyCivilizationIndependenceIndividualismMind And Body Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“As we there had to say, 'we are indeed to have appetites, but the appetites are not to have us', so we should now say, 'we are indeed to have mind, but mind is not to have us'.” PhilosophyMoralityIndependenceSelf ControlMind And Body Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!” WantReasonPhilosophyShowsMightHateBecomingCallingPerfectionAbstractAbstractionRealistElevationRedeemingUnfriendly Author:Max Stirner
