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German
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Sociologist
March 1
, 1858 -
September 28
, 1918
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
Speak
Being
Stadium
Transition
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Respect
Justice
Nothing
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 of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Culture
Face
Problems
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Georg Simmel
Positive
Stranger
Interaction
Very
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
Georg Simmel
Labor
Economic
First
Division
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel
Personality
Performance
Mysterious
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Georg Simmel
Strangers
Distance
Reason
General
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Georg Simmel
Nature
Good
Man
Should
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
Georg Simmel
Moment
Tension
Which
Revelation
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg Simmel
Change
Results
Individuality
Nervous
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Relationship
Will
Two
Every
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
Georg Simmel
Life
Faith
Never
Back
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel
Culture
Grow
More
Individual
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
Georg Simmel
Way
Circle
Small
Strange
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
Georg Simmel
Money
Always
Economy
Seat
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
Georg Simmel
Relationship
Mind
Picture
Personal
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Georg Simmel
Personality
Accomplishment
More
Labor
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
Men
Development
Opportunities
Us
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Georg Simmel
Change
Mind
More
Events
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg Simmel
Life
Personality
Time
Easy
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
Time
Men
Gossip
Temptation
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg Simmel
Confidence
Society
Secret
First
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 in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Progress
Value
Hands
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Georg Simmel
Result
Person
Genuine
Exhausted
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
Life
Great
Historical
Right
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
Life
Time
Without
Integration
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