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.
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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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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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Become vision itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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