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"The excellent artist does not own any concepts

that one marble stone in itself does not hold 

within its superfluous, as to that only arrives

the hand which obeys the mind"   

Michelangelo Buonarroti 

 

 

"-Socrates: What do you think, Menone? In answering me, did he by chance tell me any thoughts which were not of his own? 

-Menone: No, they were all his own.

-Socrates: Nevertheless, he did not know, as we were saying before.

-Menone: That is right.

-S.: But were they, or were they not, these thoughts in him?

-M.: Yes.

-S.: In the one who does not know, then, there are truthful opinions about the things that one does not know, which refer to

      them?

-M.: It seems so.

-S.: And, as if in a dream, they just rose up in him. And if someone questions him many a time,  in several different ways,

      over these very things, be sure that in the end he will not know any less than any other.

-M.: So it seems.

-S.: Because he will know without anybody teaching him, but only questioning him, as he retrieves the knowledge from inside

      his own self.

-M.:Yes. "

 

from the dialogue “Menone”

 

 

 

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