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Individual 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…
- 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…
- 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 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 the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he…
- 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…
- Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
- 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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