Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "The mind is not a tabula rasa but a block of marble which has veins, and these v…"
The mind is not a tabula rasa but a block of marble which has veins, and these veins determine the shape that the statue can take.
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A metaphor from 'New Essays on Human Understanding', opposing Locke's blank slate.
Date: 1704
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