Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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