One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSFrom the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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