American - Philosopher | February 27, 1863 - April 26, 1931
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
FutureExperiencePastPresentShort
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
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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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Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
StupidDifferencesInterestDifferent
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
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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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