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.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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