Plato
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax… and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax… and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know. - Plato quote

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax… and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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Plato

Classical Greek philosopher

427 - 347BC