Samuel Alexander Quotes

• Time is the Mind of Space.

  Samuel Alexander

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• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

  Samuel Alexander

  Topics in Expectations, Future

• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  Samuel Alexander

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• The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

  Samuel Alexander

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  Tags in Desire

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  Samuel Alexander

  Topics in Business, Life, Nature

• 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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• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  Samuel Alexander

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• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  Samuel Alexander

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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 and in being willed it is thought.

  Samuel Alexander

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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.

  Samuel Alexander

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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 processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  Samuel Alexander

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• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

  Samuel Alexander

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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 clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  Samuel Alexander

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• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  Samuel Alexander

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  Tags in Designated, Difficult

• It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

  Samuel Alexander

  Topics in Experience

• For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

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• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  Samuel Alexander

  Topics in Life

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  Samuel Alexander

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• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  Samuel Alexander

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  Tags in Perception, Act

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  Samuel Alexander

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  Tags in Accordingly, Act

Samuel Alexander (27)

Birth:	6th January, 1859
Death:	13th September, 1938
Nationality:	Australian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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