Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.
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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.Georg Simmel
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
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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 possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.
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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
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