Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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