Georg Simmel — "The metropolis exacts from man a different kind of consciousness than does rural…"

"All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego, whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in h…"

"The existence of secrets is a necessary condition for the existence of society."

"The brutality of a man purely motivated by monetary considerations … often does not appear to him at all as a moral delinquency, since he is aware only of a rigorously logical behavior, which draws th…"

"The modern individual is an atom, but an atom with a soul."

"The essence of religion is that it is a longing for the impossible."