Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The 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.
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But 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.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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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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