Georg Simmel — "The crowd is a temporary madness that allows individuals to escape their solitud…"

"The secret of beauty is that it is not beautiful enough."

"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."

"Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up."

"The more individualized we become, the more we resemble each other."

"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…"