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Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our…

Quote byJohn Keats · 1795–1821

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letters (1817–1820), To John Hamilton Reynolds (3 May 1818).

English (original)

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

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