Georg Simmel — "The human being is an animal that can say 'no'."

"The human being is a bridge between two abysses: nature and spirit."

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

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

"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…"

"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."