Georg Simmel quote: "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."

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities an...
GEORG SIMMEL

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secre...
GEORG SIMMEL

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy...
GEORG SIMMEL

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social struct...
GEORG SIMMEL

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the...
GEORG SIMMEL

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

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersona...
GEORG SIMMEL

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams ...
GEORG SIMMEL

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of al...
GEORG SIMMEL

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require a...
GEORG SIMMEL

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

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
GEORG SIMMEL

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

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of it...
GEORG SIMMEL

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear fro...
GEORG SIMMEL

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.
GEORG SIMMEL

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
GEORG CANTOR

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their port...
GEORG BASELITZ

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I w...
GEORG SOLTI

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.
GEORG GRODDECK

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK

We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate. [Ger., Wir haben lang genug ge...
GEORG HERWEGH

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
GEORG BUCHNER

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
GEORG TRAKL

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
GEORG BRANDES

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
GEORG TRAKL

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
GEORG BRANDES

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
GEORG SOLTI

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
GEORG BUCHNER

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
GEORG HERMES

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
GEORG BRANDES

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
GEORG BRANDES

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held conce...
GEORG CANTOR

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of...
GEORG BRANDES

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see thei...
GEORG HEGEL

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG HEGEL

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusia...
GEORG HEGEL

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows co...
GEORG FABRICIUS

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
GEORG TRAKL

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsb...
GEORG SOLTI

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opin...
GEORG CANTOR

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
GEORG CANTOR

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite...
GEORG CANTOR

What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finit...
GEORG CANTOR

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, i...
GEORG CANTOR

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true...
GEORG HEGEL

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity
GEORG BRANDES

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more be...
GEORG BASELITZ

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
GEORG TRAKL

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
GEORG BUCHNER

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
GEORG BUCHNER

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had ...
GEORG BRANDES

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodne...
GEORG BRANDES

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
GEORG BUCHNER

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I ...
GEORG SOLTI

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunte...
GEORG SOLTI

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our l...
GEORG BUCHNER

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
GEORG HERMES

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life...
GEORG SOLTI

It's not very much, it's rather puny. They definitely need some more.
GEORG PETERSEN

I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.
GEORG RAUCH

Despair, night in the grieving senses.
GEORG TRAKL

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
GEORG TRAKL

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing wat...
GEORG TRAKL

Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at yo...
GEORG TRAKL

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
GEORG TRAKL

In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
GEORG CANTOR

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite alep...
GEORG CANTOR

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
GEORG CANTOR

[What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor! As John D. Barrow wr...
GEORG CANTOR

One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational number...
GEORG CANTOR

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
GEORG TRAKL

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely...
GEORG SOLTI

We are concerned that the virus may still circulate after this campaign,
GEORG PETERSEN

I have one more title to defend. Every year there is a wok sliding championship. I am a two-time wor...
GEORG HACKL

I'm very focused on the race. I have time after the race to think about what it means to be done.
GEORG HACKL

We have four full-time people who investigate these. That's not enough.
GEORG GREVE

At the Moor

Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillne...
GEORG TRAKL

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood th...
GEORG BUCHNER

Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has de...
GEORG BüCHNER

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
GEORG BRANDES

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
GEORG HERMES

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and ...
GEORG BRANDES

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.
GEORG CANTOR

Marie
- Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim işte ben! Bıçaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Düny...
GEORG BüCHNER

MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everyt...
GEORG BüCHNER

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he ha...
GEORG CANTOR

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
GEORG BUCHNER

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
GEORG BUCHNER

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparen...
GEORG BASELITZ

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye ...
GEORG BUCHNER

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
GEORG BUCHNER

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
GEORG TRAKL

The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children
GEORG BUCHNER

Kisses are the language of love.
GEORG KEIL

I'm very happy. Now I have every color of medal.
GEORG HETTICH

We flirted with a gold medal.
GEORG HETTICH

I am very surprised. I still haven't realized fully what I've done.
GEORG HETTICH

I never won a World Cup competition. I won jumping, but never won the whole competition. This mornin...
GEORG HETTICH

I'm very surprised. After the last uphill, I realized I can win a medal. I am very happy.
GEORG HETTICH

I did not win a medal but I have shown that I can still compete with these younger guys.
GEORG HACKL

It's a race sport and that's always dangerous. But we have strict regulations and only the better dr...
GEORG HACKL

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.
GEORG HACKL

These will be the last runs of my career, I'm very close to the end.
GEORG HACKL

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.
GEORG HACKL

Only those who are behind in technology want that. But a lot of things that sound good in theory unf...
GEORG HACKL

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the ...
GEORG HACKL

It makes me tremendously proud to qualify for a sixth Olympics.
GEORG HACKL

We're fundamentally opposed to DRM. We think it's a dead end for society.
GEORG GREVE

We want to make sure that Microsoft is forced to publish the communication specifications, and in a ...
GEORG GREVE

It appears that the journalist at Reuters was somewhat confused in terms of separating speculation a...
GEORG GREVE

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.
GEORG GREVE

explicit statement of who truly holds political power.
GEORG GREVE

Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.
GEORG GREVE

invite some people into so-called 'advisory committees' which will first help to determine the miles...
GEORG GREVE

These are things that are being tossed around, but whether, how and in what form it will take place,...
GEORG GREVE

We have to give the sad news that we have found another victim. Only one more person lies buried und...
GEORG GRABNER

It would be irresponsible to let them press on.
GEORG GRABNER

Specialists were brought in to examine the structure. They decided it would be irresponsible to cont...
GEORG GRABNER

It is clear that Premiere as a television group is harmed. We are not fighting with the same weaponr...
GEORG KOFLER

It just doesn't make sense that the matches are shown in free TV directly after a live broadcast in ...
GEORG KOFLER

Ahead of the 1974 World Cup, many households swapped their black-and-white TV sets for a color TV. W...
GEORG KOFLER

Communicating on progress is critical for our participants as well as for the Global Compact itself....
GEORG KELL

By joining the Global Compact, Coca-Cola has an opportunity to build on its already impressive work ...
GEORG KELL

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
GEORG TRAKL

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens ar...
GEORG PETERSEN

We need to prepare - every country - for an eventual massive influenza epidemic that puts perhaps up...
GEORG PETERSEN

[The virus in the dead woman] seems like a virus that has gone directly from birds, ... reassuring f...
GEORG PETERSEN

Definitely the whole international community is very much present,
GEORG PETERSEN

It's not what we call extensive human-to-human transmission ... It doesn't mean mutation.
GEORG PETERSEN

What we know is that from one clear case in Thailand and probably in other cases there has been clos...
GEORG PETERSEN

It doesn't mean mutation,
GEORG PETERSEN

In around 80 percent of cases (in Asia) so far there is obvious contact with sick birds. That means ...
GEORG PETERSEN

With Champions TV we are establishing a new brand as a starting point for Premiere's free-to-air TV ...
GEORG KOFLER

Premiere is solidly ... positioned for the future competition in the TV market.
GEORG KOFLER

This was the first half. We're now about to start the second half.
GEORG KOFLER

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
GEORG TRAKL

As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are a...
GEORG BRANDT

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
GEORG BUCHNER

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can ...
GEORG BUCHNER

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
GEORG SOLTI

Woyzeck
- Burada olduğumuz için şanslıyız değil mi Andreas?
Andreas
- Bu yer la...
GEORG BüCHNER

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewe...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

Nothing exists except through language.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtai...
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG W. HEGEL

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical educatio...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of c...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider eve...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN

Men still have to be governed by deception.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

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.

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Georg Simmel

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

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