Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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 may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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