Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
