Samuel Alexander Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.”

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

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

“The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”