Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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 that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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