All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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