Georg Simmel Short Quotes

15 Sourced Quotes

View all Georg Simmel Quotes
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

Georg Simmel
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Georg Simmel
Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

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

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

Georg Simmel
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel
Objectivity does not simply involve passivity and detachment; it is a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement.

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
Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.

Georg Simmel
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
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

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 subjective entirety of the individual.

Georg Simmel
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
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
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Georg Simmel