The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
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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
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
Georg Simmel
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
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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