If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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We 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.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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