"The blasé attitude is the subjective reflection of the objective structure of the metropolis."

"The modern individual lives in a constant tension between freedom and necessity."

"To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, the…"

"The brutality of a man purely motivated by monetary considerations … often does not appear to him at all as a moral delinquency, since he is aware only of a rigorously logical behavior, which draws th…"

"The essence of art is that it creates a world that is more real than reality."