Georg Simmel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.”

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

“The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.”

“Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.”