Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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