The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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From 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.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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