One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSWhen 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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