The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry... and Oscar Wilde

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What do you think of this: "External reality, apparently so solid, so evidently there, is utterly elusive and is perceived differently by each of us-and which in fact each of us perceives differently at different moments."
and this: "It is the brain that everything takes place. We know now that we do not see with the eyes or hear with the ears. They are really channels for the transmission, adequate or inadequate, of sense impressions. It is in the brains that the poppy is red, that the aple is odorous, that the skylark sings."