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.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
More Plotinus Quotes
-
-
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUS -
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUS -
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUS -
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUS -
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUS -
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUS -
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUS -
There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUS -
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUS -
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUS -
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUS -
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUS -
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUS