“ For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel
“ Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. Georg Simmel
“ 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. Georg Simmel
“ The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimul… Georg Simmel
“ 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
“ Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. Georg Simmel
“ One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in. Georg Simmel
“ Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up. Georg Simmel
“ By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life. Georg Simmel
“ The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy h… Georg Simmel
