The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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