Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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