19 Quotes by George Herbert Mead

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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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    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.

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