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.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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