“The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.” — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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… — Max Scheler Copy Share
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for… — Max Scheler Copy Share
“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… — Max Scheler Copy Share
