"The perceptive act is a reaction of the……" — Samuel Alexander

"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."

— Samuel Alexander

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26 Quotes by Samuel Alexander

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth…
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of…
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of…
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the…
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or…
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed,…

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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