If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUS
PLOTINUS
Plotinus on goal
Plotinus63 quotes“If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.”
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PlotinusPlotinus Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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PlotinusPlotinus The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PlotinusPlotinus As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PlotinusPlotinus In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PlotinusPlotinus Become vision itself.
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PlotinusPlotinus 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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