George H. Mead Quotes

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

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

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

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.

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

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

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

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

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