Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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