Quotes by Max Scheler

“There is a completely different way of stooping to the small, the lowly, and the common, even though it may seem almost the same. Here love does not spring from an abundance of vital power, from fi...”

“It is precisely the essential feature of egoism that it does not apprehend the full value of the isolated self. The egoist sees himself only with regard to the others, as a member of society who wi...”

“In ressentiment morality, love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena:...”

“When we are told, in the same tone, that these people will be rewarded in heaven for their distress, and that heaven is the exact reverse of the earthly order (the first shall be last), we distinct...”

“The kingdom of God has become the other world, which stands mechanically beside this world—an opposition unknown to the strongest periods of Christianity.”