"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."
— Passion

January 1, 1970

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T. S. Eliot, Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (1964).