Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
More Quotes from 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
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
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander
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
Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form.
Samuel Alexander
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
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