Conation Quotes
- It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. — Samuel Alexander
- 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… — Samuel Alexander
- For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged… — Samuel Alexander
- 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… — Samuel Alexander