Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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