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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

- Georg Simmel
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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

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.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Modern 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.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.