We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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