Best 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. Barriers
- Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. Contents
- Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Finds
- 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… Autonomy
- He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. Educated
- Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind. Gratitude
- 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… Allocating
- 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… Conceived
- 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… Antagonistic
- 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… Enclose
- A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know. Doesnt
- A stranger is far enough away that he is unknown but close enough that it is possible to get to know him. In a society… Able