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.

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

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

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

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

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

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