For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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,… - 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,…
- Georg Simmel
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the w… - Georg Simmel
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the w…
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. - Georg Simmel
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjecti… - Georg Simmel
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjecti…
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. - Georg Simmel
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face o… - Georg Simmel
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face o…
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means. - Georg Simmel
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value… - Georg Simmel
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value…
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift… - Georg Simmel
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift…
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