And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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 soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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