Samuel Alexander Quotes

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

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.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Every thought is an afterthought.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see