Max Stirner Quotes
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.
Stirner, Max. The False Principle of Our Education. Translated by Robert H. Beebe, Ralph Myles Publisher, 1967, p. 11.
When Augustus first achieved power, he shared it with Marc Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in a military dictatorship known as the Second Triumvirate. Augustus was the most influential of the 3, and he eventually pushed the other two out and ruled alone as Emperor.
Johann Kaspar Schmidt, known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.
