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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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 demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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