Atopial

"Memory is of past things. But the past is referred to by reference to a definite time. Memory therefore is a way of knowing things in reference to a definite time, which is to say that it knows things by reference to here and now. But such knowledge is the province of the senses, not of intellect. So memory belongs not to the intellectual part of the soul, but to the same part as the senses."

Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, 1a q. 79, a. 6, 2 (via fuckyeahphilosophy)