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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Dangerous Slightly Distorted Most Truths

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. Georg Hermes

Soul Universe Souls Derived

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

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. George Grosz

Art Culture Old Bourgeoisie Collapsing Ploy Standing Keep Defend

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either. George Grosz

War Thought Would Never Perhaps End Did Either

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. George Grosz

Best Game Fight Stupidity Own Bitter Bitter End My Own Brutality Could Beat Self Simply Ideals Course End Up Did Manage Stood Disgusting Which Them Beliefs Defending

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. George Grosz

Business Genius Personality Profit Promote Only Poets Individuality Greater Cult Itself Personage Which Really Painters

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. George Grosz

Peace Joy Drunk Stricken Blind Were Us

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. Gerd von Rundstedt

You Madness Will First Else Destroyed Find Someone Troops Attempt Retreat First Place Repeat Order Hold Cannot Place Second Second Place

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. Gerd von Rundstedt

Path Back Way Out Seemed Russians Area Factor Wiped Soon Adverse Fell Force Another Fresh Arrival Blocked Us Received

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