“What is not supposed to be my concern!”

— Max Stirner, book The Ego and Its Own

Cambridge 1995, p. 5
The Ego and Its Own (1844)
Context: What is not supposed to be my concern! First and foremost, the Good Cause, then God's cause, the cause of mankind, of truth, of freedom, of humanity, of justice; further, the cause of my people, my prince, my fatherland; finally, even the cause of Mind, and a thousand other causes. Only my cause is never to be my concern. "Shame on the egoist who thinks only of himself!"

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