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.
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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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