The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Become vision itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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