Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
space detachment form
...wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space...
order mind upheaval
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.
intellectual moments wells
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.
relationship two ratios
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
transition speak secrecy
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
being-yourself inspire historical
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
self perfection long
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.
relationship mind causes
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.
confidence secret firsts
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
schedules technique life-is
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.
individuality nervous psychological
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
absence complete full knowledge possession trust
The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.
great historical itself join life metropolis reveals
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.
conceived element general less particular regard
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.