In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived..

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis..

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

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects..

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

Desire 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….

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees….

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 prac….

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the d….

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation ass….

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 sensor….

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 ….

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and con….

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that ….

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

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of c….

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 immedi….

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 wi….

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental..

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

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical word….