Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSClearly, 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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A 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.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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When 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.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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