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.
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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Become vision itself.
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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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