[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.