Max Stirner Quotes


Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!


Citations

Stirner, Max. The Ego and His Own. Translated by Steven T. Byington, Benjamin R. Tucker, 1907, p. 54.

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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
  • Born: October 25, 1806
  • Died: June 26, 1856
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Philosopher

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.