Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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