The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

  • -- Georg Simmel 齐美尔

都市型个性的心理基础在于神经刺激的强化,这是由外部和内部刺激的迅速和不间断的变化所导致的。

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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

为了适应变化和现象的对比,智力不需要任何冲击和内在的剧变;只有经历了这样的巨变,保守的人才能适应大都市的节奏。

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.

因此,如果没有把所有的活动和相互关系最准时地整合到一个稳定而客观的时间表中,都市生活的技巧是无法想象的。

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

对有组织的群众的抵抗,只能由个人和群众一样有组织的人来进行。

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

个人的定义是:一百万人的大众除以一百万人。