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Object Quotes by Samuel Alexander
- An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Object Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir