"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition……" — Georg Simmel
"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
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Georg Simmel
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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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Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
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More Secrecy Quotes
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of…
— Niels Bohr
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on…
— John O. Brennan
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
— John le Carre
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain…
— Sun Tzu
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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!
— Sun Tzu
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
— John Keats
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
— Lewis Thomas
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