We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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