What a Feeling! But What is Feeling?

"Is Socrates good in general? Aristotle rightly answers this question by saying: 'I cannot know if Socrates is good while he is alive', because he might suddenly turn into a bad person. The philosopher waits for Socrates to die and then tells you what it means to 'be' Socrates. I see that this is the attitude of many philosophers, including contemporary philosophers [...] This is not for me; I prefer Socrates to live, for the butterfly to still be flying, even if I cannot pin it to a piece of cork and say—definitively—that it is blue. I prefer not to see the butterfly fully, but to keep it alive—this is my attitude towards knowledge. I observe its appearance and try to put my gaze into words, into sentences. But this gaze is as fragile and elusive as my sentences [...] In any case, the butterfly will inevitably disappear from sight, because it is free to go wherever it wants and does not need me to live its freedom. At least, I can capture something of its beauty while it flies, without keeping it all to myself.”