Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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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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