If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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