Georg Simmel — "The blasé attitude is the subjective reflection of the objective structure of th…"

"The meaning of life is not to be found in life itself, but in the forms of life."

"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 fragment is a symbol of the modern condition, where everything is incomplete and fragmented."

"The most important things are not to be found in the conscious, but in the unconscious."

"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."