In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
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. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. George Herbert Mead Read Quote
