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> [Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/ressentiment-is-always-to-some-degree-a-determinant-of-the-romantic/)

[Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-scheler/)

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## More 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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/one-of-my-principal-theses-is-that-in-every-case-the-nature-of-a/)

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> [Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/whenever-convictions-are-not-arrived-at-by-direct-contact-with-the/)

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> [“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the identifiability of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/what-is-gained-by-the-transcendence-of-the-object-is-the/)

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> [ “Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse \[\*Triebimpuls\*\] which arouses may tire out;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/love-loves-and-in-loving-always-looks-beyond-what-it-has-in-hand-and/)

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> [ “Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation \[\*Seinsverhältnis\*\] can we work out the particular kind of being from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has-been-based-on-an-ontological/)

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> [“There are two fundamentally different ways for the strong to bend down to the weak, for the rich to help the poor, for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/there-are-two-fundamentally-different-ways-for-the-strong-to-bend/)

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> [“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed” toward the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/all-ancient-philosophers-poets-and-moralists-agree-that-love-is-a/)

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> [“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin" of consciousness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/we-must-reject-entirely-the-frequently-encountered-assertion-that/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/if-the-awareness-of-our-limitations-begins-to-limit-or-to-dim-our/)

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> [The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/the-purpose-of-art-is-to-press-forward-into-the-whole-of-the-external/)

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> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/all-that-is-worthy-of-love-die-liebensw-rdigkeiten-from-the-viewpoint/)

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> [“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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/existential-envy-which-is-directed-against-the-other-person-s-very/)

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> [“Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/antiquity-believed-that-the-forces-of-love-in-the-universe-were/)

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> [Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/ressentiment-is-always-to-some-degree-a-determinant-of-the-romantic/)

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> [“The “noble” person has a completely naïve and non-reflective awareness of his own value and of his fullness of being, an obscure conviction which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/the-noble-person-has-a-completely-na-ve-and-non-reflective-awareness/)

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