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

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

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

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

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.

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.