#me

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

#essential #first #internal #members #reciprocal

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

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. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great

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

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #fraud #in the end #most #part

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 it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗