Ressentiment (n.) is a petty, slavish brand of morality which, contrary to a spirit of life, leads one to assume that justice and happiness are things to be found elsewhere than in life.
Ressentiment (n.) is an affect (such as anger, pathological vulnerability, impotent lust for revenge, thirst for revenge) which should at once be forbidden to the sick spirit and also their most natural inclination.
Ressentiment (n.) is made up of two elements: On the one hand things are inverted into their opposite (i.e. Magnanimity is really cowardice). On the other hand, reflexivity takes the place of spontaneity.
Ressentiment (n.) is not as a psychic mechanism but more a reactive feeling to certain experiences. It is not only a self-absorbed feeling of pity. ..
Ressentiment (n.) is the active force of suffering which is pushed back and repressed, incarcerated within and finally able to discharge and vent only on itself such that a new depth is created for suffering.
Ressentiment (n.) is the malignant rancor against the mentally powerful and self-affirming, and the hatred toward the other which preconditions one's own self-affirmation and self-esteem.
Ressentiment (n.) is the resenting both of the power of others and the resenting of one's own weakness and inability to enact vengeance.
Ressentiment (n.) is the source of negative moral values in society. It is not a specific emotion of jealousy, but an attitude toward life whereby man despises his body, his instincts, and everything about creative 'life'.
Ressentiment (n.) turns creative when those denied the true reaction — the deed — compensate themselves with an imaginary revenge, and give birth to values.
Ressentiment (n.) at its most desperate — an embitterment against existence — comes from being powerless against men, not against nature.
Ressentiment (n.) of the lowly toward everything honored is gambled on by a doctrine that presents itself as the counterdoctrine to the wisdom and power of the world — filling poor little heads with the conceit that they are the salt of the earth.