Famous Quotes | A toothache, or a violent...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. - T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Attribution: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot’s 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).

Categories: Knowledge, Modernist Poet, Pain, Passion

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