The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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