If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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