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.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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