Quotes By Georg Simmel
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
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Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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For obvious reasons, the immoral hides itself, even when its content encounters no social penalty, as, for example, many sexual faults.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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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.
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
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