From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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