The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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