"Thus the same object may supply a practical……" — Samuel Alexander
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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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.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth…
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of…
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of…
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or…
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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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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to…
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
— Charles Barkley
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
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