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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
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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