“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”

“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”

“For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.”

“The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.”

“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.”

“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

“If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, … all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the ‘fact’, must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.”

“Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering of it.”

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”