Become vision itself.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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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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