A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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Become vision itself.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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