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.

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

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.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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