It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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