Georg Simmel Quotes

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

Relationships with parents, grandparents, friends, and siblings were important to me when I was young and have remained so throughout my life. Our relationships with other people both shape and reflect who we are. These relationships are infinitely fascinating to explore!

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

People change and forget to tell each other.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

When two people are together, they are not two but six: what each one is, what each one thinks he or she is, and what each one thinks the other is. And what is true for people is also true for countries and organisations.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

If you can have a skewed sense of your body, it stands to reason you could develop the same kind of thing about your relationships with others in a social network.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

Relationships are very complex. It's very unusual to see something which is so 'complex portrayed on screen.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.