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

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

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.

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

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

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

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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

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

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

I feel I overcame something pretty great.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.