Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
bonds century eighteenth free himself historical man morals state
The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
educated education knows man
A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.
determination people world
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.
learning educated knows
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.
individuality exhausted individualism
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
empty-places given duty
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.
gratitude memories moral
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.
moments revelations secrecy
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
stranger form relation
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
economy metropolis seats
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
space detachment form
...wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space...
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.
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.