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

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 sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

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

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

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.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.