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“Spiritual people have something they've planted in their head that is supposed to be realized. They have concepts oflove, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see actualized; therefore they want to build a kingdom oflove on earth, in which no one any longer acts from self-interest, but everyone acts "from love." Love is supposed to rule. What they've planted in their head, what is one supposed to call it other than-afixed idea? Indeed, it "haunts their heads." The most oppressive phantasm is the human being. Just think of the proverb, "The road to ruin is paved with good intentions." The intention to completely actualize humanity in oneself, to completely become human, is of such a ruinous sort; such are the intentions to become good, noble, loving, etc.”
― Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property

“So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies, but only universal, national, or popular interests, class interests, family interests, and "universal human interests".”
― Max Stirner, Der Einzige Und Sein Eigentum

“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

“Do I write out of love for human beings? No, I write because I want to give my thoughts an existence in this world; and even if I thought that these thoughts would take away your rest and peace, even if I saw the bloodiest wars and the destruction of many generations sprouting from this seed of thought: — still I would scatter it”
― Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property