"The more individualized we become, the more we resemble each other."

"The individual is not only a member of society, but also, in a certain sense, society itself."

"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."

"Money is the purest reification of means, a tool that has become an absolute end."

"The metropolis exacts from man a different kind of consciousness than does rural life."