George Herbert Mead

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

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. ”

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

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

Society is unity in diversity. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”