George Herbert Mead Quotes

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Society is unity in diversity.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

History is always the interpretation of the present

Man lives in a world of meaning.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.