Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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