Cold Quote by Samuel Alexander

“The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.”

Samuel Alexander

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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy 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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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act…

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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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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not…

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