In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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