The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. Georg Simmel More Quotes by Georg Simmel More Quotes From Georg Simmel Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel division-of-laborcitiesfirsts Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. Georg Simmel spheresrespectjustice Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see. Georg Simmel perfectionselflong 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 causesmindrelationship Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space. Georg Simmel detachmentstatesspace The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. Georg Simmel metropolisseatseconomy 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 personalityswimhands Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. Georg Simmel mysteriouspersonalityaverage 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 accomplishmenthumanitymean Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. Georg Simmel shouldcommonmen Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. Georg Simmel secrecytransitionspeak 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 strangersgeneraldistancereason 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 circlesmallstrangeway 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 usopportunitiesdevelopmentmen 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 greatequalhistoricallife
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