Max Stirner Quotes
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
Stirner, Max. The Ego and His Own. Translated by Steven T. Byington, Benjamin R. Tucker, 1907, p. 215.
Chaucer has Criseyde say this. It is the statement that would gladden the heart of any feminist. This was one of Mary McCarthy’s favorite quotations.
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.