Explicit Quote by Samuel Alexander

“When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”

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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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future…

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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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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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