One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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