A painter without hands who wished to express in song the picture before his mind would, by means of this substitution of spheres, still reveal more about the essence of things than does the empirical world.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.

I mean, my mind is a storm, and I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.