From T. S. Eliot, “The Perfect Critic,” in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920):
When we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts.
Alan Jacobs, in How to Think, comments on Eliot’s text:
Note that the problem, for Eliot, is not that emotions are involved, but that they substitute for thought, that they replace thinking. Read more...
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