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From Quotes by Georg Simmel
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
- 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…
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