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. Georg Simmel allocateconditiondevelopment Change image and share on social
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. Georg Simmel carryconsciousnesseasy share on social
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Georg Simmel exhaustgenuineindifferent Change image and share on social
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. Georg Simmel activityimpersonalintegration Change image and share on social
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. Georg Simmel secrecyspeakstadium Change image and share on social
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. Georg Simmel cogenormousform share on social
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. Georg Simmel barrierbreakconfession Change image and share on social
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. Georg Simmel conceivedistanceelement Change image and share on social
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. Georg Simmel acceptbackbelief Change image and share on social
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Georg Simmel basischangeconsist share on social
