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.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
PLOTINUSThe sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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