#wax

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ↗

— Aristotle

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#gold #impress #into #iron #itself

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ↗

— Aristotle

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#body #figure #impressed #more #must