It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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Become vision itself.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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