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 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 w...”

“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.”

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

“Man lives in a world of meaning.”

“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.”

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

“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.”