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.

  • -- Georg Simmel 齐美尔

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。

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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。

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

没有人拥有他想要的东西。我要做的就是用我所有的材料取得成功。想象如果事情不一样,我会怎么做,这纯粹是浪费时间和精神力量。他们没有什么不同。

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.

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。

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

社交媒体让我可以选择自己的社交时间。

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

油画是一门发达的技术。为什么倒退?

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

技术就是一切,我们玩的是身体接触运动。