Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmelwas a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth1 March 1858
CountryGermany
Georg Simmel quotes about
cities division-of-labor firsts
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
economy metropolis seats
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
men break-through gossip
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
respect justice spheres
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
culture tissues growing
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.
hands order organization
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
empty-places given duty
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
stranger form relation
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
gratitude memories moral
Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.
moments revelations secrecy
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
individuality exhausted individualism
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
mean division-of-labor accomplishment
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
fashion support feelings
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.
learning educated knows
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.