The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Until 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.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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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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