George H. Mead Quotes

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

Evil, Find, Before

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

Nation, Ourselves, Interests

Society is unity in diversity.
George H. Mead

Society, Unity, 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.
George H. Mead

Good, Personal, Public

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

Life, Nature, Art

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
George H. Mead

Sense, Normal, Multiple

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, Place, Order

Man lives in a world of meaning.
George H. Mead

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
George H. Mead

Between, Social, Individual

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

Experience, Social, Individual

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

Beauty, Face, Quality

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

Life, Great, Human

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
George H. Mead

Self, Body, Object

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
George H. Mead

Stupid, Different, Between

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

Experience, Group, Social

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.
George H. Mead

Character, Human, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 27, 1863

Died: April 26, 1931

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