Georg Simmel

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

— Georg Simmel

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

— Georg Simmel

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

— Georg Simmel

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or…

— Georg Simmel

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

— Georg Simmel

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and…

— Georg Simmel

A stranger is far enough away that he is unknown but close enough that it is possible to get to know him.…

— Georg Simmel

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are…

— Georg Simmel

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as…

— Georg Simmel

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

— Georg Simmel

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting…

— Georg Simmel

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it,…

— Georg Simmel

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform…

— Georg Simmel

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

— Georg Simmel

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

— Georg Simmel

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle…

— Georg Simmel

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals;…

— Georg Simmel

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and…

— Georg Simmel

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

— Georg Simmel

“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have…

— Georg Simmel

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any…

— Georg Simmel

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

— Georg Simmel

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with…

— Georg Simmel

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently…

— Georg Simmel

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with…

— Georg Simmel