Plotinus Quotes

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.