Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. -Georg Simmel Relationship
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. -Georg Simmel Positive
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. -Georg Simmel Change
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. -Georg Simmel Respect