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.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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