black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.

Related Topics

Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUS

All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUS

Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUS

Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
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.
PLOTINUS

Alone Blend Body Both Clean Derive Distinct Either Empty Enjoy Entirely Mode Soul Third Two
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUS

Demand Fit Know Object Organ
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.
PLOTINUS

Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUS

Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUS

All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
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.
PLOTINUS

Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
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.
PLOTINUS

Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUS

Being Unity Virtue
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUS

Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
PLOTINUS

Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUS

Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUS

Every Inscribe Letter Like Moemmet Sky Star Themselves
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUS

Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0