One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Become vision itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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