Author details
All Samuel Alexander Quotes
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
49% of people like this quote
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander
48% of people like this quote
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
47% of people like this quote
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Samuel Alexander
47% of people like this quote
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
46% of people like this quote
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander
46% of people like this quote
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
46% of people like this quote
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
45% of people like this quote
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
44% of people like this quote
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
42% of people like this quote
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.
Samuel Alexander
11% of people like this quote
Related authors