Full Idea
It takes a man to understand by the use of universals, and to collect out of the multiplicity of sense-impressions a unity arrived at by a process of reason.
Gist of Idea
It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions
Source
Plato (Phaedrus [c.368 BCE], 249b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.55