Georg Simmel Quotes
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently…
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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the…
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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…
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Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive…
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
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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…
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The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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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…
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