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Georg Simmel Quotes

German - Sociologist | March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918

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.

Life Culture Problems Face Heritage

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Speak Transition Stadium Being Thus

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.

Culture Grow Growing More Out Less

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Positive Stranger Interaction Very

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Time Men Temptation Gossip Barriers

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.

Relationship Mind Picture Personal

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.

Life Time Schedule Without Most

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.

Life Great Right Equal Historical

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

Men Opportunities Development Us

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

Life Respect Justice Nothing Sense

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Moment Release Revelation Tension

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

Confidence Society First Secret

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