Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (…

- Max Scheler

Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systema…

- Max Scheler

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The ev…

- Max Scheler

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

- Max Scheler

Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinion…

- Max Scheler

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the…

- Max Scheler

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within …

- Max Scheler