Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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