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.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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