The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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