You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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 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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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