It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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