Quotes by Samuel Alexander - Page 1

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Analysis
Curiosity
Pieces
Act
Begins
Tearing
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Distinguished
Objects
Sensory
Accordingly
Acts
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Belonging
Expectations
Objects
Expectation
Object
Recognised
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Expectations
Good Memories
Memories
Mere
Images
Previous
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Mind
Perception
Reactions
Object
Reaction
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Cognitive
Elements
Mental Health
Wells
Acts
Contain
Element
Mental
Therefore
We Cannot
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Analysis
Issues
Movement
Simple
Defy
Mental
Sensation
Reflex
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Perception
Experienced
Mental
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Ends
Life Is
Practice
Begins
Indeed
Mental
Practical
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Individualism
Names
Sides
Designate
Practical
Satisfactory
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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 / Philosopher
Deals
Psychology
Whole
Acts
Experiencing
Make Up
Mental
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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 / Philosopher
Perception
Tree
Distinguish
Experienced
Perceived
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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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Class
Contemplation
Ideas
Reflection
Beside
Unfortunately
Locke
Sensation
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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, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Convenient
Kind
Swag
Two
Distinguish
Thus
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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 / Philosopher
Cold
Degrees
Desire
Expectations
Filled
Warm
Desires
Expectation
Interval
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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 / Philosopher
Expected
Firsts
Objects
Actively
Object
Willed
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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.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Differences
Important
Psychological
Purpose
Remembered
Virtue
Object
Perceived
Purposes
Revealed
Sensed
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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 / Philosopher
May
Perceive
Perception
Object
Partly
Practical
Speculative
Supply
Thus
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Demand
Oil
Surprise
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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 / Philosopher
Details
Different
Different Levels
Levels
Psychology
Assumes
Forms
Describe
Detail
Mental
Primarily
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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 / Philosopher
Enjoyment
Lasts
May
Misunderstanding
Objects
Phrases
Added
Contemplated
Phrase
Prevent
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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 / Philosopher
Aspect
Cognition
Defined
Distinction
Elements
Real
Element
Mental
Properly
Real Sense
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Philosophy
Stars
Tree
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Modification
Peculiar
Philosophy
Togetherness
Tree
Star
Meaning
Meaning Of
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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 / Philosopher
Components
Desire
Mark
Personality
Rising
Self
Sensory
Appealing
Ideal
Merely
More And More
Tide
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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 / Philosopher
Delayed
Enjoyment
Fancy
Fruition
Impulse
Begins
Calculated
Desired
Hence
Images
Inflame
Object
Properties
Weave
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When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander / Philosopher
Explicit
Facts
Memories
Obvious
Practice
Related
Speculation
Closely
Images
Immediately
Practical
Processes
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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 / Philosopher
Invasion
Long
Possession
Remains
Self
Succeed
Wish
More And More
Processes
Sets
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