"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which……" — Georg Simmel
"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
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37 Quotes by Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel has 37 quotes on this site.
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a…
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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…
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The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science:…
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Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension…
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called…
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel…
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In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are…
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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the…
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The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands…
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
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