Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

All thoughts which lead you to selfishness lead you away from awareness.

My self has been moving away from me. Today it is my farthest you.

all extremes are pernicious in various ways.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All movements go too far.

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.