#ratio

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

— Georg Simmel

#characterized #every #groups #individuals #involved

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

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

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#asian #asian countries #been #character #chronic

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#backs #both #competition #entrepreneurs #external

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#acts #even #heart #into #mind

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black community #community #disintegration #integration #pay

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#football #frustration #i #learned #me

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. ↗

— Huston Smith

#into #lured #metaphysics #new #newtonian