Georg Simmel — "The deepest secret of life is that it has no secret."

"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

"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…"

"Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its s…"

"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind cou…"

"The eye cannot endure the sight of the absolute, so it creates a perspective."