“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.”

—  John Carroll

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 107

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