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

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

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.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.