But 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.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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