Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
George H. MeadTo 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 H. MeadThe self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
George H. MeadOur 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 H. Mead