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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. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cannot #exhausted #genuine #indifferent #individuality

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#days #endeavors #fire #intolerance #modern

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#evil #great #great evil #misfortune #prompt

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#catholic church #church #depiction #meant #meant to be

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#after #character #formed #half #person

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#fiction #hope #i #i think #novels

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#elementary #elementary school #i #missouri #school