Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg SimmelFor, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Georg SimmelModern 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.
Georg SimmelIn 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 Simmel