There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSClearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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