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 Read Quote
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. Georg Simmel Read Quote
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. Georg Simmel Read Quote
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Georg Simmel Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Georg Simmel Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. Georg Simmel Read Quote
