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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.

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

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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 6th, 1859

Died: September 13th, 1938

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