Curiosity Begins As An Act Of Tearing

When We Come To Images Or Memories Or Thoughts, Speculation, While Always Closely Related To Practice, Is More Explicit, And It Is In Fact Not Immediately Obvious That Such Processes Can Be Described In Any Sense As Practical.

In The Perception Of A Tree We Can Distinguish The Act Of Experiencing, Or Perceiving, From The Thing Experienced, Or Perceived.

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.

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.

Thus The Same Object May Supply A Practical Perception To One Person And A Speculative One To Another, Or The Same Person May Perceive It Partly Practically And Partly Speculatively.