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Which Quotes by Samuel Alexander
- 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.
- 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…
- The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
- Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes;…
- 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…
- 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…
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