George Herbert Mead Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous George Herbert Mead quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Society is unity in diversity.”
“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.”
“The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.”
“The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.”
“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.”
“Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.”
“In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.”
“The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.”
“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.”
“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.”
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