The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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.

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

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

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

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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.