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.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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