Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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