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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Carry Consciousness Easy Hand Hardly Infinitely Interests Life Made Needs Offered Oneself Person Personality Sides Stream Swim Time Uses

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The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Against Antagonistic Circle Circles Closed Contemporary Earliest Firmly Found Historical Neighboring Phase Relatively Small Social Some Strange Structures Way Well

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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Because Cannot Exhausted Genuine Indifferent Individuality Intellectually Logical Operations Person Reactions Relationships Result Sophisticated Which

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The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Always Been Economy Metropolis Money Seat

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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.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Basis Change Consists Individuality Inner Metropolitan Nervous Outer Psychological Results Stimulation Stimuli Swift Type Which

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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.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Activities Impersonal Integration Life Metropolitan Most Mutual Relations Schedule Stable Technique Thus Time Unimaginable Without

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Sociologist

Born: March 1st, 1858

Died: September 28th, 1918

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