Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.
Georg SimmelThe calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.
Georg SimmelMots clés money reductionism mathematics
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
Georg SimmelMots clés philosophical sociology
Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.
Georg SimmelMots clés mortality philosophical
One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.
Georg SimmelMots clés philosophical sociology
A metrópole é a sede desta cultura, que eliminou todas as características da pessoa
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