George Herbert Mead Quotes


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

Man lives in a world of meaning.

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

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.

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.

Society is unity in diversity.

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.

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

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