Superior Performance Quotes by Georg Simmel

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
• For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit…
• By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it,…
• The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform…
• Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any…
• For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
• Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with…
• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need…
• In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any…
• The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and…
• The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress,…
• Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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