Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

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

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.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.