You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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