Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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