Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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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
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
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
Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.
Georg Simmel
For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Georg Simmel
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