Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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