All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We 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.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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