Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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