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Inspirational Quotes by Samuel Alexander
- Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
- 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 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.
- In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
- 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…
- Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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