Georg Simmel — "Money is the purest reification of means, a tool that has become an absolute end…"

"The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour a…"

"The essence of secrecy is that it is a form of power."

"The more abstract money becomes, the more concrete its effects."

"By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life."

"The tragedy of the modern individual is that he is too much himself and not enough of the world."