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 con…

- Samuel Alexander

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

- Samuel Alexander

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation ass…

- Samuel Alexander

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

- Samuel Alexander

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical word…

- Samuel Alexander

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

- Samuel Alexander

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

- Samuel Alexander

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

- Samuel Alexander

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 d…

- Samuel Alexander