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

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Being Between Secrecy Speak Stadium Thus Transition

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

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Average Every Mankind Mysterious Performance Personality Something Superior

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

~Georg Simmel

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

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Confidence Essential First Internal Members Reciprocal Relation Secret Society

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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Cities Division Economic First First Of All Highest Labor Seats

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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.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Both Conditions Development Men Metropolis Opportunities Peculiar Presents Revealed Roles Stimuli Us Ways Which

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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Accommodate Any Change Conservative Contrast Could Does Events Inner Intellect Metropolitan Mind More Only Order Phenomena Require Rhythm Shocks Through

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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Accept Back Belief Case Faith He Individual Latter Life Must Never Origins Rests Thousand Trace Verify Which

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Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Common Develop Good Man Nature Originally Should

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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.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Absorb Constantly Culture Energies Entirety Grow Growing Impersonal Individual Less Modern More More And More Objective Out Subjective

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Sociologist

Born: March 1st, 1858

Died: September 28th, 1918

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