Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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