Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Become vision itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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