Georg Simmel - Society Quotes

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I understand the task of sociology to be description and determination of the historical-psychological origin of those forms in which interactions take place between human beings. The totality of these interactions, springing from the most diverse impulses, directed toward the most diverse objects, and aiming at the most diverse ends, constitutes "society."

Georg Simmel

The social game has a deeper double meaning—that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society."

Georg Simmel

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

Georg Simmel