Class Quote by Samuel Alexander

“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.”

Samuel Alexander

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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

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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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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to…

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical…

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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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