If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Clearly, 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.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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 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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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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