Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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