Georg Simmel Quotes

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Georg Simmel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918

Topics

LifeProgressValueOrganization

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

Jimmy Lai

CultureWorldRestThinkGossip

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

Aneurin Barnard

WorkCharacterTruthPeopleMeKey

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mercy Otis Warren

CharacterBeautifulSoulPicture

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

BusinessResponsibilityProfitDevice

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

Michael Perlis

EndLanguageAmericaChinaServe

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

Michael T. Flynn

PeopleThinkLegalTalkingYouKid

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

Joko Beck

LifePainPeopleThinkTryingRun

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Dinesh D'Souza

FatherIdentityIdeologyHisObama

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

Chris Borland

FootballPlayGotFarPlay Football

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Brooke Burke

WorkDoneAlwaysEvenPregnant

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

Anushka Sharma

TodayI AmMeI Am What I AmGoSay

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

William Morris

GoodGreatTimeRememberBadOld

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