'Feeling here (for the Romantics and their outrunners) is not what it was for the mainstream of the Enlightenment, a passive state of affect only contingently linked with what provokes it on [the] one hand, and with the action it motivates on the other. Rather we have a notion of feeling in the pregnant sense as inseparable from thought, just as thought, if it truly engage with reality is inseparable from feeling.'

Charles Taylor, Hegel, p.21.