The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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