Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— Max Scheler

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

— 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…

— Max Scheler

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Max Scheler

“Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to…

— Max Scheler

Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic…

— Max Scheler

“The “noble” person has a completely naïve and non-reflective awareness of his own value and of his fullness of being, an obscure…

— Max Scheler

“In ressentiment morality, love for the “small,” the “poor,” the “weak,” and the “oppressed” is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse…

— Max Scheler

“The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence. We saw in the case of…

— Max Scheler

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to…

— Max Scheler

“Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly…

— Max Scheler

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

— Max Scheler

“The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.”

— Max Scheler

“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in…

— Max Scheler

“The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than…

— Max Scheler

“It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist…

— Max Scheler

“In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo sum*. Naturally,…

— Max Scheler