Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSA dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSNever did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSWhen we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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