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.

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.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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

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

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