Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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