People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
The people is dead! Good-day, Self!
From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.
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.
Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.
Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns – they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.
What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.