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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 opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism"

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

Max Scheler

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.”
“I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way”
“I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.”
“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”
“You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.”
“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”
“When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.”
“We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.”

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