Georg Simmel People Quotations

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.