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> [“The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-scheler/the-world-according-to-heidegger-is-like-a-prep-school-for-calvinists/)

[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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