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

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Act, Curiosity

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

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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