Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
schedules technique life-is
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.
average personality mysterious
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
confidence secret firsts
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
hands personality swim
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.
men common should
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
being-yourself inspire historical
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
order mind upheaval
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.
space detachment form
...wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space...
fashion judging ugly
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.
self perfection long
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.
individuality nervous psychological
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.
relationship mind causes
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
relationship two ratios
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
intellectual moments wells
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.