Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share
“This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any… — Plotinus Copy Share
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Copy Share
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events… — Plotinus Copy Share
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone… — Plotinus Copy Share
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the… — Plotinus Copy Share
“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.” — Plotinus Copy Share
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing… — Plotinus Copy Share
![“Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and…” quote by Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/663/plotinus-12599_becoming_before-we-had-our-becoming-here-we-exist_3148170.jpg)
