Life is simultaneously boundless continuity and boundary-determined ego

Evidence

While the stream of life flows through those individuals (more accurately: flows as these individuals), it dams up in each one of them and becomes a sharply outlined form. Each individual then asserts itself as something complete against other individuals of its kind as well as against the total environment, and does not tolerate any blurring of its boundary. Here lies an ultimate, metaphysically problematic condition of life: that it is boundless continuity and at the same time boundary-determined ego. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 811

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on how the flâneur’s wandering both maintains and blurs the boundary between self and urban environment. — connects to: Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466; Reciprocal modern love presupposes each ego having secured a definite boundary — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 583; Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 786 (+11 more)

Related

• Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none (similarity 0.90)
• Life both requires and overflows every determinate form (similarity 0.87)
• Life finds only illusory goals and ultimate disappointment when confined to itself (similarity 0.82)
• Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it (similarity 0.81)
• Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries (similarity 0.81)
• Life’s present continuously stretches into the future rather than aiming at fixed goals (similarity 0.80)
• Form conters uniqueness on matter while pure continuity admits no closed structures. (similarity 0.79)
• In Vitalogy, being reduces first to living, and being itself reduces first to reason. (similarity 0.79)
• All human activities are equivalent and equally doomed to failure in pursuit of being (similarity 0.79)
• Existence and limitation are inseparably linked in life narratives. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Life both requires and overflows every determinate form #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 828
• Life can only enter reality through forms that inherently contradict it #expands (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 866
• Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018
• Existence and limitation are inseparably linked in life narratives. #qualifies (0.55) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 980
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life #exemplifies (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778