Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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