It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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