Quotes by Georg Simmel

All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other. (Georg Simmel)

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. (Georg Simmel)

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

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)

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

For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults. (Georg Simmel)

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)

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)

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)

Mans nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. (Georg Simmel)