If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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