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.
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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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