There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 35), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter X, Section 5 (p. 143)

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There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not...

There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not...

There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not...

There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not...