If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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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.
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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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