Quotes by : Georg Simmel

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose....

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of....

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and....

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general.....

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have....

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents....

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to....