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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate con...

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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, a...

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One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches who...

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The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have...

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The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of...

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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in g...

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The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

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

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to...

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The Sociology of Georg Simmel

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Georg Simmel

Philosopher

Born: 1858-03-01

Died: 1918-09-28

Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 28 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation.More