The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Never 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.
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Never 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.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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When 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.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Become vision itself.
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