"Fashion is the playing area for individuals that……" — Georg Simmel
"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, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here."
—
Georg Simmel
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
37 Quotes by Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel has 37 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
-
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given…
-
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science:…
-
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension…
-
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…
-
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are…
-
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the…
-
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands…
-
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
-
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
See all 37 quotes by Georg Simmel »
More Action Quotes
This quote is filed under Action Quotes,
one of 8,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
-
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
-
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
-
Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
-
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
See all 8,300 Action Quotes »