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.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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