If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSAs 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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