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.

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

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

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

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

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