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Max Stirner Quotes on Freedom

Johann Kaspar Schmidt, who wrote under the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher and the principal exponent of philosophical egoism. This page collects quotes attributed to Max Stirner on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Max Stirner:

    “I have set my cause on nothing.”

  • Attributed to Max Stirner:

    “All causes higher than my own are spooks.”

  • Attributed to Max Stirner:

    “The state calls its own violence law, that of the individual crime.”

  • Attributed to Max Stirner:

    “Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head.”

  • Attributed to Max Stirner:

    “I am owner of my might, and I am so when I know myself as unique.”