The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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