It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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