In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
PLOTINUSFrom the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
PLOTINUSIf a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUS