It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who ha…

T. S. Eliot
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ✨ Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley. Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.
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