It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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