Plotinus on all
Plotinus63 quotes“One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.”
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PlotinusPlotinus As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PlotinusPlotinus In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PlotinusPlotinus Become vision itself.
PlotinusPlotinus As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PlotinusPlotinus And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
PlotinusPlotinus The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PlotinusPlotinus Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PlotinusPlotinus In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PlotinusPlotinus There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PlotinusPlotinus Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PlotinusPlotinus If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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