Max Scheler Quotes
Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German phenomenologist and the most important phenomenological ethicist of the early twentieth century. Drawing on but moving beyond Husserl, he argued in Formalism in Ethics and the Non-Formal Ethics of Values that values are objective, intuited objects of feeling rather than constructions of rational will, and that they are arranged in a hierarchy rooted in the person. The quotes below are attributed to Max Scheler, organized by topic.
Max Scheler on Life
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“Man is the only being whose existence is a problem to himself.”
Max Scheler on Love
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“Love is the discovery of higher worth in another being.”
Max Scheler on Mind
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“The person is not a thing; the person is the bearer of acts.”
Max Scheler on Virtue
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“Values are objective and given to feeling.”
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“Ressentiment is the poisoning of the moral life by suppressed envy.”
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“The hierarchy of values is intuited, not deduced.”