“Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.”

— George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead (1926). "The Nature of Aesthetic Experience." International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jul., 1926), pp. 382-393; p. 382

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American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist 1863–1931

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