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.
PLOTINUSWithdraw 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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