George Herbert Mead

Society is unity in diversity.

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.

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.

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

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.