Max Scheler Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Scheler:
“The person is not a thing; the person is the bearer of acts.”
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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:
“Man is the only being whose existence is a problem to himself.”
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“When we cannot obtain a thing, we comfort ourselves with the reassuring thought that it is not worth nearly as much as we believed.”
Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen(1912) | L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 73