Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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