Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
educated education knows man
A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.
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.
moments revelations secrecy
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
economy metropolis seats
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
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.
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.