There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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