The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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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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