Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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.
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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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