Georg Simmel

"The secret of successful living lies in adapting ourselves to the conditions of our environment."

"Money is frozen culture."

"Love is dangerous because it creates a kind of obligation."

"The greatest events occur in silence."

"Each individual is a thread in the total fabric of society."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

"The fear of misunderstanding creates the distance between souls."

"Culture is the totality of our intellectual and spiritual possessions."

"Time is the most precious commodity in modern society."

"Art gives us the ability to extract commonality from the chaotic particularity of experience."

"The objective is the accumulation of experiences; the subjective is the interpretation of them."

"Discretion is the currency of civilized society."

"We are slaves of our habits, yet we create them."

"The modern individual is torn between competing loyalties."

"Truth requires the courage to be unpopular."

"The metropolis creates the circumstances for nervous overstimulation."

"Poverty is the worst form of spiritual enslavement."

"Every form of beauty is a claim upon our emotions."

"The boundary defines the unity of a circle."

"Secrecy is a fundamental form of human sociability."

"The core of education is the development of judgment."

"We are each the center of a circle; all others are on the periphery."

"Gratitude is the response to grace."

"The true individual is one who can maintain uniqueness within social conformity."

"History is the gradual increase in complexity of social organization."

"The soul yearns for infinite expansion; society demands finite constraint."

"Imagination without judgment produces fantasy; judgment without imagination produces pedantry."

"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the weight of time."

"Every conversation is a battle for dominance disguised as exchange."

"The beauty of a moment lies in its transience."