Top 25 Quotes by Georg Simmel of 32 - Page 2

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Georg Simmel

Men, Break Through, Gossip

Georg Simmel (2015). “The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies”, p.34, Georg Simmel

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel

Average, Personality, Mysterious

Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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

Faith, Belief, Individual

Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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.

Georg Simmel

Order, Mind, Events

Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Georg Simmel

Transition, Speak, Secrecy

Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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

Hands, Personality, Swim