Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel AlexanderBoth expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel AlexanderThe perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel AlexanderDesire 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