It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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
-
-
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUS -
Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUS -
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUS -
One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUS -
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUS -
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUS -
As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PLOTINUS -
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUS -
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUS -
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUS -
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUS -
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUS -
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUS