Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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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.
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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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