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All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
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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.
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The fake love of ressentiment man offers no real help, since for his perverted sense of values, evils like sickness and poverty have become goods.
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We have a tendency to overcome any strong tension between desire and impotence by depreciating or denying the positive value of the desired object.
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The kingdom of God has become the other world, which stands mechanically beside this world —an opposition unknown to the strongest periods of Christianity.
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Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly, and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.
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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 evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Born:
August 22, 1874
Died:
May 19, 1928
(aged 53)
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