Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Until 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.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Become vision itself.
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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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