Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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