In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy — 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
