Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
impossible subjective theory
Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.
both conditions peculiar revealed roles stimuli ways
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.
against closed earliest firmly found historical phase relatively social structures
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.
conceived element general less particular regard
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
great historical itself join life metropolis reveals
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.
absence complete full knowledge possession trust
The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.
educated education knows man
A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.
matter people relationships
All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.
concern duty member preserve reference sacred silence
The most sacred duty of each member is to preserve the profoundest silence with reference to such things as concern the well-being of the order.
content encounters hides immoral obvious sexual social
For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults.
bonds century eighteenth free himself historical man morals state
The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
transition speak secrecy
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
faith belief individual
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.
mean accomplishment humanity
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.