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Georg Simmel: Quantitative Money
on Tuesday, January 3, 2023Meaning of Georg Simmel Money Quote: saying financial economy has an exactitude to economic life which can’t be applied to personal lives. Georg Simmel said:
“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” — Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel: Money Stands Still
on Wednesday, March 30, 2022Georg Simmel Money Quote saying that if money is not moving, it doesn’t serve the purpose it was intended to serve. Georg Simmel said:
“When money stands still, it is no longer money according to its specific value and significance” — Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel: Money Vehicle Motion
on Sunday, May 17, 2015Philosopher Georg Simmel Money Quotation saying, oh so philosophically, that capital has value only when in motion. Georg Simmel said:
“Money is nothing but the vehicle for a movement in which everything else that is not in motion is completely extinguished” — Georg Simmel
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