Max Stirner
"Where the world comes in my way—and it comes in my way everywhere—I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but—my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it."
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"Where the world comes in my way—and it comes in my way everywhere—I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but—my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it."
"حيثما يعترضني العالم – وهو يعترضني في كل سبيل – ألتهمه لأُخمِدَ نهمَ أنانيتي. أنت بالنسبة لي لست سوى قوتي، تماماً كما أُستَغلُّ أنا أيضاً وأُتَّخذُ أداةً لك. لا يربطنا ببعضنا سوى رابط واحد: رابط الاستغلال والانتفاع. لا ندين لبعضنا بشيء، فما أظن أنني أدين لك به، إنما هو دين لنفسي في المقام الأول. إن أبديت لك بشاشةً لأُبهجك بالمثل، فذلك لأن بهجتك تُعنى لي، ووجهي يخدم غايتي؛ أما ألف غيرك، ممن لا أبتغي إدخال السرور عليهم، فلا أُبديه لهم."
Max Stirner
The Ego and Its Own
"“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”"
"من أراد الحرية فليصنعها بنفسه. فالحرية ليست هبة خرافية تسقط في حجر المرء. وما الحرية؟ هي أن يمتلك المرء إرادة تحمل مسؤولية ذاته."
Max Stirner
"Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit."
Max Stirner
"Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience."
Max Stirner
"Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience."
Max Stirner
"God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes... He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause."
Max Stirner
"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
Max Stirner
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