You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner,. . . for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult, and there is more than enough comedy and drama in that.
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.