George H. Mead famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Society is unity in diversity.
-- George H. Mead

#Diversity #Unity #Unity In Diversity
Man lives in a world of meaning.
-- George H. Mead

#Men #World
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 H. Mead

#Determination #Psychology #Groups
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
-- George H. Mead

#Past #Order #Process
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
-- George H. Mead

#Animal #Self #Doe
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
-- George H. Mead

#Quality #Faces #Separation
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
-- George H. Mead

#Psychology #Phases #Psychological
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
-- George H. Mead

#Stupid #Differences #Different
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
-- George H. Mead

#Psychology #Lines #Individual
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
-- George H. Mead

#Self #Wartime #Interest
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 H. Mead

#Appreciation #Art #Attitude
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 H. Mead

#Law #Data #Problem
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 H. Mead

#Past #Events #Process
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 H. Mead

#Yawning #Hands #Evil
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead

#Personality #Normal #Certain

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