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. 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. MeadIn wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. Mead