On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
Georg SimmelThe first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg SimmelEvery relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel