It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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