Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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