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Top 25 Samuel Alexander Quotes (2025 Update)

Samuel Alexander Quote: “What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.”

1. “What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.”

2. “Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.”

— Samuel Alexander

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

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

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.”

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

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Samuel Alexander

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

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

— Samuel Alexander

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

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

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”

8. “It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.”

9. “The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.”

10. “In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.”

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

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.”

13. “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

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Samuel Alexander Quote: “The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.”

15. “The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.”

16. “Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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 conation has if properly defined a definite value.”

19. “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 conation has if properly defined a definite value.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”

20. “When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”

21. “We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “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.”

23. “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

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Samuel Alexander Quote: “The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.”

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

— Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.”

25. “Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.”

— Samuel Alexander

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