Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral Memory Of Mankind. In This Respect, It Differs From Faithfulness By Being More Practical And Impulsive: Although It May Remain, Of Course, Something Purely Internal, It May Yet Engender New Actions. It Is An Ideal Bridge Which The Soul Comes Across Again And Again, So To Speak, And Which, Upon Provocations Too Slight To Throw A New Bridge To The Other Person, It Uses To Come Closer To Him.

-Georg Simmel

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Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral

Georg Simmel

Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral Memory Of Mankind. In This Respect, It Differs From Faithfulness By Being More Practical And Impulsive: Although It May Remain, Of Course, Something Purely Internal, It May Yet Engender New Actions. It Is An Ideal Bridge Which The Soul Comes Across Again And Again, So To Speak, And Which, Upon Provocations Too Slight To Throw A New Bridge To The Other Person, It Uses To Come Closer To Him.

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Gratitude

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Moral

The Individual Has Become A Mere Cog In An Enormous Organization Of Things And Powers Which Tear From His Hands All Progress, Spirituality, And Value In Order To Transform Them From Their Subjective Form Into The Form Of A Purely Objective Life.

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