Plato, Philebus, section 38e

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[38e]

Socrates
And if some one is with him, he might repeat aloud to his companion what he had said to himself, and thus that which we called an opinion now becomes a statement?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
But if he is alone when he has this thought, he sometimes carries it about in his mind for a long time.

Protarchus
Undoubtedly.

Socrates
Well, is your view about what takes place in such cases the same as mine?

Protarchus
What is yours?

Socrates
I think the soul at such a time is like a book.

Protarchus
How is that?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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