Plato, Philebus, section 39b

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Protarchus
That is my view completely, and I accept it as stated.

Socrates
Then accept also the presence of another workman in our souls at such a time.

Protarchus
What workman?

Socrates
A painter, who paints in our souls pictures to illustrate the words which the writer has written.

Protarchus
But how do we say he does this, and when?

Socrates
When a man receives from sight or some other sense the opinions and utterances of the moment and afterwards beholds in his own mind the images of those opinions and utterances.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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