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. (Samuel Alexander)

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.

Samuel Alexander

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