More from Plotinus
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.
PlotinusPlotinus The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PlotinusPlotinus Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PlotinusPlotinus In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PlotinusPlotinus There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PlotinusPlotinus Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PlotinusPlotinus If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PlotinusPlotinus Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PlotinusPlotinus Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PlotinusPlotinus One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PlotinusPlotinus It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PlotinusPlotinus I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PlotinusPlotinus Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.
Al FeldsteinAl Feldstein Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Al CappAl Capp People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.
Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers We can’t ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
Ahad Ha'amAhad Ha'am The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.
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