If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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