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

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

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.

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

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

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

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