Simmel’s aphorisms achieve their depth through striking leaps into the uncharted

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Perhaps one could mak^ a good case for the proposition that he was most profound in his aphorisms, in this, shots into the unknown or perhaps it is merely that the distance between the allusion and the uncharted (uncharted at least for Simmel) is so much more striking than between the road and the landscape through which it leads. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 185