George Mead Quotes

#1. 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 Herbert Mead

#2. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

George R R Martin

#3. Gibbering case of Oh, Shit! I believe that's a bona fide psychological term; if it isn't, it should be.

Kevin Hearne

#4. 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 Herbert Mead

#5. 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 Herbert Mead

#6. The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

George Herbert Mead

#7. It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

Nikhil Advani

#8. I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

Danny Masterson

#9. The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

George Herbert Mead

#10. Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

William Monahan

#11. Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

George Herbert Mead

#12. 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 Herbert Mead

#13. 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 Herbert Mead

#14. Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Chris Lilley

#15. Society is unity in diversity.

George Herbert Mead

#16. Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#17. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

George Herbert Mead

#18. History is always the interpretation of the present

George Herbert Mead

#19. I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.

George R R Martin

#20. It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

Bell Hooks

#21. 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 Herbert Mead

#22. 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 Herbert Mead

#23. I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.

George Mead

#24. No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

George Herbert Mead

#25. I see who you are. You see only who you fear you might become." - Maggie to Tadhg

Kris Kennedy

#26. The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

Robin Gross

#27. Man lives in a world of meaning.

George Herbert Mead

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

George Herbert Mead

#29. Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

Paula Deen

#30. When you accept a lord's meat and mead, all you do reflects on him. Always do more than he expects of you, never less. Never flinch at any task or hardship. And above all, never shame the lord you serve.

George R R Martin

#31. 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 Herbert Mead

#32. In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

George Herbert Mead

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

George Herbert Mead