Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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