Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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