Philosophical Quote by Georg Simmel

“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.” quote by Georg Simmel — Download Open image

““One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.””

Georg Simmel

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Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

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Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

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Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight…

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A stranger is far enough away that he is unknown but close enough that it is possible to get to know him. In a…

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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to…

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one…

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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

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Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power…

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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…

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