All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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