Georg Simmel — "Conflict is designed to resolve divergent dualisms; it is a way of achieving som…"

"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society."

"Money is the purest reification of means, a tool that has become an absolute end."

"The tragic element of culture is that the objective spirit, once created, comes to stand over and against the subjective spirit, whose expression it is, and ultimately crushes it."

"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

"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 f…"