“The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the “thing” as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may tire out; love itself does not tire. This *sursum corda* which is the essence of love may take on fundamentally different forms at different elevations in the…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc4/max-scheler-21013_axiology_love-loves-and-in-loving-always-looks-be_248149.jpg)
![“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from which the principle of immanence-to-consciousness (the starting point of Idealism and Critical Realism) mistakenly proceeds as though from a primary…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/65c/max-scheler-21013_epistemology_only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has_492525.jpg)
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