It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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