One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSFrom the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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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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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 actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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