The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
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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.Georg Simmel
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.
Georg Simmel
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.
Georg Simmel
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg Simmel
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