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

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Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

Max Scheler

#Judgment Quotes #Valuation Quotes #Negation Quotes

“But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.”

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.199, Macmillan
“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”
“Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.”
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”
“In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.”
“Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.”
“We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.”

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