The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSUntil 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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