Max Stirner
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"Johann Kaspar Schmidt", better known as "Max Stirner", was a German philosopher. He is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, postmodernism, and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Unique One and His Property). This work was first published in 1845 in Leipzig, and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.

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When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right".

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

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