"You can mark in desire the rising of……" — Samuel Alexander
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
—
Samuel Alexander
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by Samuel Alexander
Samuel Alexander has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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.
-
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
-
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…
See all 26 quotes by Samuel Alexander »
More Appealing Quotes
This quote is filed under Appealing Quotes,
one of 266 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
-
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
— Aaliyah
-
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
— William J. Brennan
-
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen…
— Bill Bryson
-
I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I…
— Julie Burchill
-
It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns…
— Julie Burchill
-
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
— Samuel Butler
-
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is…
— Jane Campion
-
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever…
— Eric Carle
-
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This…
— Camille Claudel
-
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what…
— George Clooney
-
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
See all 266 Appealing Quotes »