Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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