“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
Variant: We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Source: King Lear
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Context: To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think. Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body, and soul.