The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
George H. MeadWhat 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 H. MeadImagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
George H. MeadSocial psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
George H. Mead