Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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