Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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