"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, Australian Philosopher

Thought, Being, First, Future

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"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."

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"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."

Perception

"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."

Desire

"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."

Life

"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."

Act

"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."

Life

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

Perception

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

Act

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

Conation

"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."

Meaning

"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."

Time