34 Quotes by 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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