Georg Simmel

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. ”

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

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ”

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

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. ”

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

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. ”

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. ”

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ”

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ”