Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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 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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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