... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

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

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.

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

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.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

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