Distinguished Quote by Samuel Alexander Download Open image “The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.” — Samuel Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distinguished Objects Sensory
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. — David Abram Copy Share Image
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
