The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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