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"Man lives in a world of meaning."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"What 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."


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


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


"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."


"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."


"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."


"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."


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


"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."
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