Max Scheler Quotes

One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essent...

All that is worthy of love [*die Liebenswürdigkeiten*], from the viewpoint of God's comprehensive lo...

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source o...

Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in ...

Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse ...

It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive compone...

Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qua...

We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," ...

The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence...

What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a pluralit...

Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source o...

Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] ca...

It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent o...

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

The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more ...

Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves,...

In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident...