In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.
Georg SimmelEvery relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg SimmelThe first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Georg SimmelFor, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Georg SimmelNothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.
Georg Simmel