Memory
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
memory · al-dhākirah · remembering · the art of memory · الذاكرات · الذاكرة
in the texts
Lucullus
The faculty and trained discipline of memory, discussed as a natural gift versus a taught art.
For he possessed a kind of divine memory for facts — Hortensius had the greater memory for words;
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
Al-dhākirah, taken not as one faculty in one place but as the aggregate effect of many impressed traces and their natural preparedness, so that there are properly auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory and tactile memories rather than a single memory.
and there cannot be a single memory, because there is no single result for the conception of the multiple recollections and their preparedness, but rather many memories whose boundaries are dispersed among the vesicles of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch;
Memory
On Benefits
The mental faculty of retaining awareness of benefits received, whose loss through neglect produces ingratitude.
3 Just as the things that are in use and suffer the touch of the hand daily never run the risk of mold, while those which are not brought back to the eyes, but have lain outside our dealings as superfluous, gather of themselves the dirt of age, so whatever frequent reflection keeps in exercise and renews is never withdrawn from memory, which loses nothing save that to which it has not often looked back.