Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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 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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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