When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (ed. Courier Corporation, 2012) - ISBN: 9780486119717