One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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