If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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