Hatred Repressed Quotes by Max Scheler

“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can, in principle,…

— Max Scheler

Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions…

— Max Scheler

“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the identifiability of…

— Max Scheler

“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may tire out;…

— Max Scheler

“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from…

— Max Scheler

“There are two fundamentally different ways for the strong to bend down to the weak, for the rich to help the poor, for the…

— Max Scheler

“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed” toward the…

— Max Scheler

“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin" of consciousness.…

— Max Scheler

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with…

— Max Scheler

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…

— Max Scheler

“All that is worthy of love [*die Liebenswürdigkeiten*], from the viewpoint of God's comprehensive love, might have been stamped and created by this act…

— Max Scheler

“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually:…

— Max Scheler