Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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 precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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From 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.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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