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Georg Simmel

German Sociologist

Born: Mar 1, 1858

Died: Sep 28, 1918

Between Every Life Personality Time Which

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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. Georg Simmel

Life Culture Problems Face Overwhelming Heritage Claim Individual Individuality Forces His Existence Historical Modern Modern Life Autonomy Social Derive Deepest Technique External Preserve

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel

Positive Relation Very Interaction Form Naturally Stranger Specific

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. Georg Simmel

Personality Too One-Sided More Only Individual Pursuit Advance Division Demands Frequently Greatest Dearth Accomplishment Labor Means Ever

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel

First Cities Economic Highest Division First Of All Labor Seats

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

Personality Superior Every Something Mysterious Performance Mankind Average

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. Georg Simmel

Good Nature Man Develop Common Should Originally

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Georg Simmel

Secrecy Release Finds Tension Involves Revelation Which Moment

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 stimuli. Georg Simmel

Change Nervous Type Consists Outer Results Individuality Stimulation Stimuli Metropolitan Psychological Which Swift Inner Basis

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. Georg Simmel

Culture Out Constantly Objective Entirety More More And More Individual Impersonal Absorb Subjective Modern Modern Culture Energies Less Grow Growing

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. Georg Simmel

Money Economy Always Been Metropolis Seat

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

Relationship Mind Picture Every Other Reciprocal Evidently Take Between Causes Personal Form Personal Relationship Persons Each

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. Georg Simmel

Opportunities Men Ways Both Allocating Development Revealed Stimuli Metropolis Conditions Roles Which Us Presents Peculiar

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

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

Life Time Needs Personality Stream Made Sides Carry Easy Oneself Hand Offered Person Infinitely Interests Uses Swim Hardly Consciousness

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Georg Simmel

Logical Result Exhausted Relationships Indifferent Individuality Sophisticated Reactions Operations Because Genuine Intellectually Person Cannot Which

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