Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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