Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. E.e. Cummings
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The quote, “anyone can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel,” was written by Sigmund Freud. In the quote, he was trying to say that it is impossible for people to learn to feel from others. Unfortunately, his work has been so influential that many people have come to believe that you have to learn to feel from someone else before you can experience it for yourself.

Source: E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised

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