Samuel Alexander Quotes

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Samuel Alexander

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : January 6, 1859

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

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

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

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