Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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