Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. Perceptions are no imprints, we have said, are not to be thought of as seal-impressions on soul or mind: accepting this statement, there is one theory of memory which must be definitely rejected. Memory is not to be explained as the retaining of information in virtue of the lingering of an impression which in fact was never made; the two things stand or fall together; either an impression is made upon the mind and lingers when there is remembrance, or, denying the impression, we cannot hold…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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