We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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