Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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