The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

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

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 tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy

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

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