Georg Simmel — "The modern individual lives in a constant tension between freedom and necessity."

"The more complex society becomes, the more primitive its foundations."

"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…"

"The most important things are not to be found in the conscious, but in the unconscious."

"Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means."

"The soul is a battlefield where the forces of life and death struggle for supremacy."