Become vision itself.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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