Samuel Alexander Quotes

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• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of…
• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying…
• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe…
• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it…
• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
• It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
• 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…
• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely…
• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and…
• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction…

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