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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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