The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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