Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSUntil 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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