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

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.

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

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

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

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

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