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.
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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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