Georg Simmel — "The secret of life is to live as if one were immortal, and to die as if one were…"

"Conflict is designed to resolve divergent dualisms; it is a way of achieving some kind of unity."

"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."

"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 more abstract money becomes, the more concrete its effects."