Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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.
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