You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality — Samuel Alexander
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. — Samuel Alexander
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. — Samuel Alexander
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. — Samuel Alexander
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. — Samuel Alexander
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described — Samuel Alexander
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. — Samuel Alexander
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. — Samuel Alexander
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense — Samuel Alexander
But unfortunately locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the — Samuel Alexander
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave — Samuel Alexander
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. — Samuel Alexander
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander