“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”
Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
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Source: Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), P. 189.

“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”

Book Two, Part III “The Dark City”, Chapter 3 (p. 200)
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Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Variant: When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.

“When we love there is no reason why.”
"Nothing Besides Itself"
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