Zitate von Georg Simmel

Zur Psychologie des Geldes. Vortrag am 20. Mai 1889 im staatswissenschaftlichen Seminar Gustav Schmollers. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/zur-psychologie-des-geldes-11/1

Philosophie der Mode

The Stranger (1908)

Die Ruine. Ein ästhetischer Versuch, in: Der Tag. Moderne illustrierte Zeitung, Berlin: Verlag August Scherl, No. 96 vom 22. Februar 1907, Erster Teil: Illustrierte Zeitung socio.ch http://socio.ch/sim/verschiedenes/1907/ruine.htm, sodann in: Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essais. Philosophisch-soziologische Bücherei, Band 27, Leipzig: Verlag von Dr. Werner Klinkhardt, 1911, S. 137-146 brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu pdf http://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2008-05/simmge0001phikul/simmge0001phikul.pdf, S. 145

Quelle: The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies (1906), p. 441: First lines of the article.

Quelle: The View of Life (1918), p. 5-6 part of the first essay "Life as Transcendence"
Kontext: Man is something that is to be overcome.
Logically considered, this, too, presents a contradiction: he who overcomes himself is admittedly the victor, but he is also the defeated. The ego succumbs to itself, when it wins; it achieves victory, when it suffers defeat. Yet the contradiction only arises when the two aspects of this unity are hardened into opposed, mutually exclusive conceptions. It is precisely the fully unified process of the moral life which overcomes and surpasses every lower state by achieving a higher one, and again transcends this latter state through one still higher. That man overcomes himself means that he reaches out beyond the bounds that the moment sets for him. There must be something at hand to be overcome, but it is only there in order to be overcome. Thus even as an ethical agent, man is the limited being that has no limit.

Quelle: The View of Life (1918), p. 5-6 part of the first essay "Life as Transcendence"
Kontext: Man is something that is to be overcome.
Logically considered, this, too, presents a contradiction: he who overcomes himself is admittedly the victor, but he is also the defeated. The ego succumbs to itself, when it wins; it achieves victory, when it suffers defeat. Yet the contradiction only arises when the two aspects of this unity are hardened into opposed, mutually exclusive conceptions. It is precisely the fully unified process of the moral life which overcomes and surpasses every lower state by achieving a higher one, and again transcends this latter state through one still higher. That man overcomes himself means that he reaches out beyond the bounds that the moment sets for him. There must be something at hand to be overcome, but it is only there in order to be overcome. Thus even as an ethical agent, man is the limited being that has no limit.

Quelle: The Stranger (1908), p. 403

Quelle: The View of Life (1918), p. 1. Opening line of first essay "Life as Transcendence"

Quelle: The Stranger (1908), p. 402; Opening line.

Quelle: The Stranger (1908), p. 403

“Domination” (1908), in On Individuality and Social Forms (1971), pp. 113-114

Quelle: The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903), p. 421 as cited in: Kenneth Allan (2009) Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World. p. 212

Quelle: The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903), p. 420

Quelle: The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies (1906), p. 444

Quelle: Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology (1896), p. 169

Quelle: The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903), p. 414

The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903)

Quelle: The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903), p. 422