There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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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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