"The real task is not to rid life of ethics but to rid ethics of its ideological content."
"The estranged ego projects its own disorder on to society and expects the restructuring and integration of the self writ large, the society, to reflect back on to the source of consciousness. Stirner regards this flight from self as a form of suicide, the dissolution of identity and uniqueness."
"Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful."
"The schizophrenic is seen to be afraid of the nihilistic void that … will remain when a rigid world-view is discarded."
"Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as ‘property’ were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models … have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, … the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities."
"Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom."
"In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck."