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.
More Quotes from Max Stirner:
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.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.
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Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes for one goes further with a handfull of might than with a bagfull of right
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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
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