"If the awareness of our limitations begins to……" — Max Scheler

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim… - 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 age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion."

— Max Scheler

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