For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.Georg Simmel
The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
Georg Simmel
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
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
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