The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Become vision itself.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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