The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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.
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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.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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