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

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 of coldness.

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 practically and partly speculatively.

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

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.

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

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.