God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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