Author: Samuel Alexander

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Samuel Alexander

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

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

- Samuel Alexander

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

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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