For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction. – Georg Simmel
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. – Georg Simmel
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. – Georg Simmel
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. – Georg Simmel
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors “quotographers,” the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010