Georg Simmel — "The individual is not only a member of society, but also, in a certain sense, so…"
The individual is not only a member of society, but also, in a certain sense, society itself.
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"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."
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