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.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.