Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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