Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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