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. MeadWarfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
George H. MeadThe intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
George H. MeadThe beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
George H. Mead