It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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