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Georg Simmel Quotes

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Personality Performance Mysterious

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful Simple Stupid Say Will

The traveling that 'Catfish' affords us and the cross-section of America that we see on a constant basis, I would have never gotten that living in the bubble that is Los Angeles or going home to visit my parents in the bubble that is New York.

Home New York Parents Going Home New

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

Mother Son Character Truth Children

In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

History Tree Beginning Attention

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Opinions Feelings Who Constant Ever

Whatever you do, have fun while doing it. That's important for me.

Fun Me Have Fun Doing You Important

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Believe Will I Believe More Benefit

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Parents Me Magic Kind Childish Old

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Heart Beautiful Fire Research Deep

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Dreams Myself Poetry World Self New

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

Love Fun Song Lucky Out Really

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Moment Why Trapped Here Amber

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