If everything is ultimately one, why does it bother taking on different forms? Why is there so much extraneous stuff? Apethitikes had an answer. It’s there, he said, because the archē is hatred; the universe we live in is made of hatred
We do not think real time. But we live it, because life transcends intellect... There is no way of expressing duration in homogeneous terms... To analyze duration is simply to substitute for it a concept which leaves out its essential characteristic.
I call matter the aggregate of images, and perception of matter these same images referred to the eventual action of one particular image, my body...There is no such thing as matter or image that is not also perception... the real is an immense sensorial system in which every image varies for itself and in a determined manner, as a function of all the others.