Max Scheler Quotes on Love
Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German phenomenologist and the most important phenomenological ethicist of the early twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Max Scheler on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“Love is the discovery of higher worth in another being.”
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“The fake love of ressentiment man offers no real help, since for his perverted sense of values, evils like “sickness” and “poverty” have become goods.”
Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen(1912) | L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 92 -
“Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.”
Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen(1912) | L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 94 -
“There is not enough love in the world to squander it on anything but human beings.”
As cited in Albert Camus , The Rebel . However the passage is ironic and Scheler's intention was the exact opposite. The full quote reads: "In the first place this love of mankind is an expression of suppressed hatred, a revulsion against G