As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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