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Georg Simmel Quotes
Page 2 of 2Georg Simmel
March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918
Nationality: German
Category: Sociologist
|  The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. | | Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. | | Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. | | 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. | | In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. | | Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. |
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