“We have a tendency to overcome any strong tension between desire and impotence by depreciating or denying the positive value of the desired object.”

Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 73

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German philosopher 1874–1928

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