Max Stirner
said
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.
— p. 11
Max Stirner
German philosopher (1806-1856)
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Lived 1806–1856, aged 50
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He dismantled every sacred claim — state, church, morality, even "humanity" itself — and said the only thing that mattered was the individual ego owning its own desires without apology. The Ego and Its Own landed in 1844 like a philosophical hand grenade, and it still hasn't stopped rolling.
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Born Johann Caspar Schmidt in Bayreuth in 1806, he lost his father early and grew up in West Prussia after his mother remarried. He studied at the University of Berlin, sitting in on Hegel's lectures, then drifted into teaching and the Young Hegelians' late-night arguments. He never landed a permanent academic post, so he kept teaching on the side while writing. In 1844 he published The Ego and Its Own under the pen name Max Stirner — a book that torched every collective ideal and declared the self sovereign. He married twice: first to Agnes Burtz, who died in 1838, then to Marie Dähnhardt. A…
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Max Stirner
said
It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.
— p. 22
Max Stirner
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In the pedagogical as in certain other spheres freedom is not allowed to erupt, the power of the opposition is not allowed to put a word in edgewise: they want submissiveness.
— p. 23
Max Stirner
said
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
— p. 25
Max Stirner
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The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice.
— p. 25
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