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.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from 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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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