Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
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The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.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 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.
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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.
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The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
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For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults.
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