“for all enquiry and all learning is but recollection” Plato

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“for all enquiry and all learning is but recollection”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Meno, 81d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)

The conclusion Socrates draws from the teaching of priests and poets that the immortal soul has already seen all things.

Citation: "for all enquiry and all learning is but recollection" — Plato, Meno, 81d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q5)

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Quotation from Meno by Plato