Max Stirner Quotes

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

The map is not the territory.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.

Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person...Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon...But as the sand's Kazekage.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.