In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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