The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
More Quotes from Georg Simmel:
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.Georg Simmel
The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.
Georg Simmel
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Georg Simmel
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Georg Simmel
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
Georg Simmel
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Georg Simmel
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