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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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