The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSA dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
PLOTINUSNever 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.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
PLOTINUSNever 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.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PLOTINUSWhen we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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