All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from 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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Become vision itself.
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