Author: Georg Simmel

Quotes

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

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

- Georg Simmel

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

- Georg Simmel

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

- Georg Simmel

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

- 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.

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.

- Georg Simmel

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

- Georg Simmel

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

- Georg Simmel

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

- Georg Simmel

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

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

- Georg Simmel

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