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

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

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

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

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or 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.

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