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.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
-
-
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUS -
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUS -
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUS -
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUS -
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUS -
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUS -
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUS -
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUS