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.

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

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

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

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

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