Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Become vision itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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