If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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