A Quote by Georg Simmel

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

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Accomplishment Advance Dearth Demands Division Division Of Labor Ever Frequently Greatest Individual Labor Means More One-Sided Only Personality Pursuit Too

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Georg Simmel
German - Sociologist
March 1, 1858 - September 28, 1918

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Carl Jung

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John Krasinski

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Louis D. Brandeis

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Benito Mussolini

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Adolf Hitler

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Joseph Stalin

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Ivan Turgenev

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