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Georg Simmel Quotes
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Man’s nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy (Georg Simmel Quotes)
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor (Georg Simmel Quotes)
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: The element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life (Georg Simmel Quotes)
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men (Georg Simmel Quotes)
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members (Georg Simmel Quotes)
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession (Georg Simmel Quotes)
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself (Georg Simmel Quotes)
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events (Georg Simmel Quotes)
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief (Georg Simmel Quotes)
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it (Georg Simmel Quotes)
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship (Georg Simmel Quotes)
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