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

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

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.

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

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

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

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