Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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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
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
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.
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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
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Georg Simmel
Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.
Georg Simmel
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