Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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