All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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