Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
More Quotes from Georg Simmel:
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.Georg Simmel
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
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.
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
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.
Georg Simmel
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