Samuel Alexander

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.